A smash comedy hit, this classic play by Noel Coward is about novelist Charles Condomine, who is planning to write about a homicidal spiritualist. Charles has remarried to Ruth, but finds himself haunted by the mischievous ghost of his late first wife, Elvira.
presented by Towers Players
7PM Saturday 13 May
7PM Friday 19 May
7PM Saturday 20 May
all tickets $35
allocated seating
Full synopsis:
Charles and Ruth Condomine live in genteel isolation
in the English countryside, with the latest in a long line of long-suffering servant,
Edward. Charles, a famous novelist, is working on his next triumph: a
story that delves into the shadowy world of the occult.
In the interest of research and a bit of a laugh, Ruth and
Charles invite the nearby village’s self-described clairvoyant and medium,
Madame Arcati, to conduct a séance in their tastefully-appointed drawing
room. The Condomines’ friends Doctor and Mrs Bradman join for an evening they
all expect to be full of tacky parlour tricks, smoke, and mirrors.
But as the haunting strains of Irving Berlin’s Always fill the house
and Madame Arcati slips into an eerily convincing trance, something far more
vampy and sinister is unleashed: Charles’ long-dead first wife Elvira. And
Elvira isn’t returning to the underworld until she sorts out some unfinished
business.
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