num_pages: 92
description: A comedy for a cast of 2 males and 5 females. The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantakerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over", joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
language: English
title: Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce in Three Acts
titlecomplete: Blithe Spirit: An Improbable Farce in Three Acts
characters: Madame Arcati, Charles Condomine, Ruth Condomine
genres: Audiobook, British Literature, Classics, Drama, Plays, Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Theatre
ratings_count: 5739
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: -883584000000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Samuel French