Blithe Spirit
by Noël Coward
Performed
May 19-22, 2016
at
The PSU Downtown Theater
Production Staff
Director | Bruce Fleischer |
Scenic Designer | Jon Vickers-Jones |
Lighting Designer | Asher Atwood |
Costume Designer | Megan Calon |
Stage Manager | Stephanie Whitesell |
Producer | Ellysa Stern Cahoy Becky Freidenberg |
About the Show
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium”, one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles’ current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, “passes over”, joins Elvira and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
The Cast
Ruth | Jocelyn Kotary | ![]() |
Charles | Jonathan Hetler | ![]() |
Dr. Bradman | Dan Cahoy | ![]() |
Mrs. Bradman | Hilary Appelman | ![]() |
Madame Arcati | Jackie Gianico | ![]() |
Elvira | Kimberly Plummer | ![]() |
Edith | Jenifer Mahley | ![]() |

