Get a first look at Theatre Royal Bath Productions' Blithe Spirit, Noël Coward's classic comedy starring BAFTA-winning comedian, actor and screenwriter Jennifer Saunders and directed by former National Theatre director Richard Eyre. The production runs until Saturday 6 July with opening night for press on Wednesday 19 June.
Jennifer Saunders makes her
Theatre Royal Bath debut as the preposterous clairvoyant Madame Arcati. She is joined by
Lisa Dillon,
Emma Naomi,
Geoffrey Streatfeild,
Simon Coates,
Lucy Robinson and
Rose Wardlaw. Blithe Spirit brings together adistinguished and multi-award-winning creative team, directed by
Richard Eyre with design by
Anthony Ward and lighting by HowardHarrison.
Written in 1941, Coward's inventive comedy proved light relief at the height of World War II when it was first staged. The show had a record-breaking run in the West End and on Broadway and remains one of the playwright's most popular works.
Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, at a séance. When she appears, visible only to Charles, and determined to sabotage his current marriage, life - and the afterlife - get complicated.
Blithe Spirit is the second production in
Theatre Royal Bath's Summer Season 2019 from Artistic Director
Jonathan Church, followingVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (now running until 6 July). The programme of eight plays will also include
Vanessa Redgrave's Vienna 1934 - Munich 1938 (11 July - 3 August), Uncle Vanya directed by and starring
Rupert Everett (18 July - 3 August), The Argument starring
Felicity Kendall (7 - 24 August), and visiting productions Trying It On (3 - 7 September) The Life I Lead (27 August - 31 August) and The Man in the White Suit (6-21 September) immediately prior to a West End transfer.
Tickets for all productions are on sale at
www.theatreroyal.org.uk.
Photo Credit: Nobby Clark
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