Blithe Spirit

When: Tuesday 10 November 2026 – Saturday 12 December 2026
Where: New Theatre · 542 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
Price: From $25

“I remember her physical attractiveness, which was tremendous, and her spiritual integrity, which was nil.” Charles Condomine is a man trapped between two wives – one living, one very much deceased.

When Charles and his second wife, Ruth, invite eccentric medium Madame Arcati to conduct a séance, he hopes to gather inspiration for his next novel.

Instead, Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the mischievous ghost of Charles’s first wife, Elvira. Invisible to Ruth but impossible to ignore, Elvira sets about causing chaos in her former home. First performed during the Blitz, Blithe Spirit offered much-needed laughter.

Nearly nine decades later, Coward’s sparkling farce remains irresistibly funny and delightfully wicked. “Stylistically, it is Coward’s masterpiece… his most complete success in imposing his own view of things on the brute facts of existence.” The Times