Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard regalia--school spirit's so nice, Anything crimson and white will suffice...
Though one didn't exactly feel like a blithe spirit sitting through the entire three hours of the play, the time factor happily had no effect on the quality factor of this production. And in fact, the cast and crew are to be commended for putting together what could potentially have been one of the biggest snoozers of the season...
Granted, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit is a funny play, but it's not exactly his funniest. Coward shows us his darker side in this play about a middle-aged man's troubled relationship with his two wives, one of whom has been dead for seven years...
...this astral menage a trois and the menace behind this confusion. As Charles' deceased wife, she does every-thing in her power to win her husband over to the other side. Charles consequently calls Madame Arcati, played by the effervescent Valerie Steiker, upon the scene to exorcise Elvira's spirit from the house...
Director David McConaughy seems to be the only one in the production not preoccupied with time constraints. In the Leverett production, the longer, more accepted version of Coward's Blithe Spirit is employed. One really can't complain about the length. But when there are 10-minute intermissions between each of the three acts, one tends to get a little irked...