Blithe Spirit is the most well-known and best-loved comedy by the prolific Sir Noël Coward, England’s leading musical and comedy writer from the 1920s to the 1950s. This farce – concerning one man, his wife, and a ghost – was first presented in the 1940s. Charles Condomine, a successful writer, is happily married to his second wife, Ruth. For fun he arranges a séance with the eccentric spiritualist Madam Arcati. Unexpectedly, the result is that the ghost of Charles’ dead first wife, the fun-loving and mischievous Elvira, returns, but she is visible only to Charles and to make matters worse, she is determined to stay and win Charles back!