Mon - Sat 7.30pm
Matinees Thurs & Sat 2.30pm
Running time; 2h30, including interval
No performance info available
Mon - Sat 7.30pm
Matinees Thurs & Sat 2.30pm
Running time; 2h30, including interval
No performance info available
★★★★ “ENORMOUS, LIFE-AFFIRMING FUN … Jennifer Saunders … KILLINGLY FUNNY” The Times
★★★★ “Jennifer Saunders has a ball in fabulous Coward comedy. A REVELATION” Daily Telegraph
★★★★ “Jennifer Saunders … a vintage performance” Daily Mail
“JENNIFER SAUNDERS IS SPOOKILY FUNNY … a fizzy delight” The Guardian
★★★★★ “Fun of the highest quality … Jennifer Saunders is magnificent”
Stage Talk Magazine
★★★★ “Stunningly staged” The Stage
“A production full of charm and class. Excellent cast” Bath Echo
Jennifer Saunders is one of the UK’s most popular comic actresses. The role of one of Noël Coward’s best loved characters, the preposterous clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, is perfectly suited to her extraordinary talents. With a distinguished creative team, this Blithe Spirt promises to be one of the theatrical highlights of the year.
Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, at a séance. When she appears, visible only to Charles, and determined to sabotage his current marriage, life – and the afterlife – get complicated.
Written in 1941, Coward’s inventive, witty and meticulously engineered comedy distracted the public from the horrors of World War II. The show had a record-breaking run in the West End and on Broadway and has been a favourite ever since.
Monday – Saturday 7.30pm
Matinees Thursday & Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets from £27
A booking fee of £1.75 per ticket applies
starring JENNIFER SAUNDERS with LISA DILLON
by Noël Coward
Directed by Richard Eyre
Starring Jennifer Saunders with Lisa Dillon, Emma Naomi, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Simon Coates, Lucy Robinson and Rose Wardlaw
Associate Director – Sarah Meadows
Designed by Anthony Ward
Lighting Designed by Howard Harrison
Presented by arrangement with Lee Dean
Jennifer Saunders is much loved for the sketch show French and Saunders, for which she and Dawn French received a BAFTA fellowship in 2009, and for the hit comedy series and subsequent film, Absolutely Fabulous, which she both wrote and starred in.
Lisa Dillon, who plays Ruth, is best known for her role as Mary Smith in BBC1’s Cranford. Her West End credits include Richard Eyre’s Private Lives.
The director of the National Theatre for ten years, Richard Eyre is the winner of five Olivier Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award. His numerous hugelyacclaimed productions include Guys and Dolls and The Invention of Love. His award-winning film and television work includes Iris, Tumbledown and The Children Act.
Designer Anthony Ward’s numerous productions include the Tony Award-winning Mary Stuart, the What’s on Stage Award for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Olivier Award for Oklahoma!. The winner of two Olivier Awards, lighting designer Howard Harrison has recently worked on Impossible and Mamma Mia! (London, Broadway and worldwide).
Box Office phonelines are currently open from 10am – 6pm Monday – Saturday.
Doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance, unless otherwise stated.
Tickets for Main House productions may include a £2.50 building levy.
Please see the ACCESS page for details regarding our Access Register and associated discounts.
A booking fee of £2.50 per ticket applies to all bookings.
There is a lift for wheelchair users from the Theatre foyer to the Stalls and Royal Circle levels. The Dress Circle and Grand Circle are stair access only.
Full booking terms & conditions can be found here
