Blithe Spirit: Thursday Show
Noel Coward’s comic masterpiece Blithe Spirit opened in London’s West End in 1941, during the Blitz of World War II, a time when Londoners were being driven into air-raid shelters to survive bombing raids of the German Luftwaffe. Coward, one of the wittiest playwrights England had produced since Congreve, knew the greatest gift he could bestow on his beleaguered city was laughter. And in Blithe Spirit, Coward delivered the goods, so successfully that the play ran for nearly 2,000 performances on the West End, became a long-running Broadway hit, and has endured to this day as an audience favorite.
Blithe Spirit tells the story of Charles Condomine, a novelist who invites an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to his country home to conduct a séance, hoping to incorporate some of her “tricks of the trade” into his next book. The scheme backfires when Arcati conjures up the ghost of Charles’s first wife, the seductive and temperamental Elvira, whom Charles’s straightlaced and mature second wife, Ruth, can neither see nor hear. Elvira brings chaos to the Condomine household and to Charles’s second marriage.
Blithe Spirit will be presented in Spanish with projected English supertitles, in three performances at the Jewish Cultural & Community Center, Calle de las Moras 47 (corner of Cinco de Mayo), on Wednesday, February 11, and Thursday, February 12, at 7pm, and on Sunday, February 15, at 2pm. The format is live radio theater – a reading by actors with music and sound effects before an audience, to be recorded for future podcast.
The splendid cast includes six of San Miguel’s finest actors: Marcela Brondo, Rodrigo Demian, Sofía Leal, Jose Luis Mendoza, Ivette Socorro, and Josefina Valentini. Fredric Dannen is the director. Blithe Spirit is a production of La Troupe México, a San Miguel-based company, the only dedicated Spanish/English bilingual theater company in Mexico.
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| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
|---|---|---|
| General Admission | $250.00 |
PRICE IN MEXICAN PESOS