Reviewed by Tony Annicone
RISE’s current production is “Blithe Spirit”, a farce by Noel Coward. This show focuses around the paranormal experience of Charles Condomine, a novelist and socialite of Kent, England. In search of inspiration for his new novel, Charles hires an eccentric medium for research purposes, and ends up in contact with the spirit of his first wife, Elvira, who makes her presence well known, much to the consternation of his second wife, Ruth. Add their doctor, his wife and a dippy, half-witted maid to the ingredients of this farce. At the time Coward wrote this play in 1941, England was in the grip of World War 2, and death was not a humorous topic.
