Blithe Spirit

Alison Steadman stars in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit
Directed by Thea Sharrock
Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium manages to conjure up the ghost of Charles's neurotic first wife, Elvira, at a seance.
They have assumed the preposterous Madam Arcati is a fraud who will simply entertain their dinner guests with a little chicanery and supply Charles with material for his forthcoming novel. But when Elvira appears, visibly only to Charles, and determined to sabotage his current marriage, life - and the afterlife - begin to get complicated!
Alison Steadman plays the improbable clairvoyant. She created the role of the monstrous Beverly in Mike Leigh's Abigail’s Party and starred in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, for which she won an Olivier Award. Recent television work includes Pride and Prejudice and Gavin and Stacey.