"Blithe Spirit" (theatre)

Join us for a night of spooky theater at Sullivan Rep's "Blithe Spirit."
This play tells the story of novelist Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth. In order to research material on the occult for his next book, Charles hosts two of their friends for dinner and invite the eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to join them and finish off the evening with a séance. Though the hosts are skeptical of Madame Arcati’s actual clairvoyance, the séance works and the spirit of Charles’ temperamental first wife, Elvira, returns from beyond the grave- at first just her voice, but then she just walks right in through the french doors. Unhappy with the fact that Charles has remarried and remaining only able to be seen and heard by him and not Ruth, Elvira takes the opportunity to disrupt his marriage through a good old classic haunting. Things take an even steeper turn when Elvira eventually makes an attempt on Charles’ life so that he may join her in the afterlife.

Performed in the round, audiences will feel as if they are in the Charles' living room, watching this ghostly chaos unfold right at their feet. Featuring special effects and jump scares comparable to any haunted house, "Blithe Spirit" offers the perfect blend of fright and storytelling for this Halloween season.

Tickets: $40

Presented by Sullivan Rep.