ASRHS Students Prepare for Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” at Ayer Shirley Regional
AYER/SHIRLEY, MA: ASRHS Drama Club’s next production is a well-loved chestnut – Noel Coward’s ‘haunting’ comedy “Blithe Spirit,” sponsored by Worker’s Credit Union. In “Blithe Spirit,” Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, wishes to learn about the occult for a novel he is writing, and he arranges for an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance at his house. At the séance, she inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years. Only Charles can see or hear Elvira, and his second wife, Ruth, does not believe that Elvira exists until a floating vase is handed to her out of thin air. The ghostly Elvira makes continued, and increasingly desperate, efforts to disrupt Charles's current marriage until ultimately she sabotages his car in the hope of killing him so that he will join her in the spirit world. Unfortunately, her plan backfires and it is Ruth who suffers her wrath. Now Charles is haunted by BOTH of his wives, so he calls on Madame Arcati again to exorcise both of the spirits… he thinks.
Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” will play November 22 and 23 at 7pm; and November 23 at 2pm in the Laura S. Leavitt Auditorium at Ayer Shirley Regional High School, 141 Washington Street in Ayer. Tickets reservations can be placed by phone, or tickets will be available at the door and in advance at the Hazen Memorial Library in Shirley. They are $10 general admission; $5 for students and senior citizens, and as a special bonus, buy two get one free! For more information about “Blithe Spirit” or the ASRHS Drama Club or to reserve tickets ahead of time, call (978) 772-2545 or visit ASRHS Drama online at www.jacneed.com/ASYD/AyerShirleyDrama.htm.
Worker’s Credit Union, sponsor of this production, is a state-chartered credit union headquartered in Fitchburg. WCU was established in 1914, has more than $1.7 billion in assets, over 100,000 members, and operates sixteen full-service branches located in Fitchburg, Chelmsford, Gardner, Groton, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Orange, Westford and Townsend. Visit them online at www.wcu.com.
Julia Alo & Katie Kilcommins are dueling wives in ASRHS’ production of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit.”
Chris Govang and Deran Quinty are two Seniors celebrating their final Fall play in Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” at ASRHS.
Deran Quinty & Roz Lupaczyk in rehearsal for ASRHS’ “Blithe Spirit”
