Un Spirited

Blithe Spirit was a dutiful revival production with little creativity or thought to add to the original material.

Angela Lansbury delighted the crowds with her dottery old lady routine, while Rupert Everett seemed positively bored effortlessly sailing through an excellent portrayal of Charles.

The two wives were okay, however Elvira was as about as promiscuous as a filing cabinet.

Blithe Spirit is a play about a successful writer inviting a "medium" to his house under false pretenses for research on his new crime novel. What he doesn't expect is that the medium awakens a Spirit that ruffles even Charles' feathers.

The set was dreadfully dull and unimaginative, and the cast were often out of sinc with sound effects, Like they were responding to the sounds rather than the sounds responding to their movement.

And it was appalling but EVERY cast member stumbled their lines more than once... Even Rupert. EVEN Angela. The 2 act Coward play must be quite a mouthful.

Fruit of the Moment: "That Cheesey Thing we had for lunch yesterday; what was it?"