"I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write 'Blithe Spirit' in five days during one of the darkest years of the war." -Noel Coward.
Written in 1941, 'Blithe Spirit' remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him.