Review of Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward. Palace Theatre, Watford. May 24 to June 16, directed by Matthew Lloyd. It’s a theatrical pleasure to see any play well done, and particularly a Noel Coward classic. So do get to the Palace Theatre if you can. “Private Lives” has been around recently, “Hay Fever” was in London and at Windsor. Now there’s a chance to see “Blithe Spirit.”
This play came ready-made out of Coward’s head in six days – rather as Mozart wrote some of his great works.
A reminder of this well-crafted plot: Charles Condamine, an author, suggests to his second wife Ruth that they ask the local medium, Madame Arcati, round to dinner with two friends, Dr and Mrs Bradman. His reason for the séance is to learn some of a medium’s ‘tricks of the trade’ to help him with his new book. No one in the group believes in spiritualism – at first…
To read the review in full by Frances Chidell visit www.mychilterns.co.uk the local website for the Chiltern region with video clips of the local area.
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