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Blithe Spirit @ The Heights Players

Fridays and Saturdays, 8 – 10:30 pm, Sundays, 2 – 4:30 pm, through Oct. 13;
$20
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One husband, two wives, and a séance gone awry – when exes return from beyond, chaos takes center stage.

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, Directed by Michelle Maccarone

A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well aware of Charles’ shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone’s personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

Location:

26 Willow Place
Brooklyn, 11201