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Noel Coward's famous comedy,
BLITHE SPIRIT, concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine,
who
invites the eccentric
medium
and
clairvoyant, Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a
séance,
hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is
haunted
by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira,
following the séance.
Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his
second
wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.
Further information:
sallymarsh@bawds.org
December 2012
A Joint Production in association with Combined Actors
Shakespeare's delightful comedy, Twelfth Night; or, What
You Will was written as a
Twelfth Night's entertainment
for the close of the Christmas season.
The play, like many of Shakespeare's plays centres on
mistaken identity. Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria and loses
contact with her twin brother,
Sebastian, whom she believes to be dead. Masquerading as a young
page under the name
Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino through the
help of the sea
captain who rescues her. Orsino has convinced himself that he is in love with
the bereaved Lady Olivia, whose father and brother have recently died,
He
decides to use "Cesario" as an intermediary to tell Olivia about his love for
her. Olivia, believing Viola to be a man, falls in love with this handsome and
eloquent messenger.
Viola, in turn, has fallen in love with the Duke, who
also believes Viola is a man, and who regards her as his confidant.
In the comic
subplot, several
characters conspire to make Olivia's pompous head steward,
Malvolio, believe that
his lady
Olivia wishes to marry him. It involves Olivia's uncle,
Sir Toby Belch; another
would-be suitor, a silly squire named
Sir Andrew Aguecheek;
her servants Maria and Fabian; and her father's favourite
fool,
Feste. Sir Toby and Sir
Andrew get drunk and disturb the peace of
their lady's house by continuously
singing late into the night at the top of their voices prompting Malvolio to
chastise them.
This is the basis for Sir Toby's, Sir Andrew, and Maria's
revenge on Malvolio .......
Further information:
julie.petrucci@combinedactors.org |
