{"id":2925,"date":"2025-03-02T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2925"},"modified":"2025-03-02T12:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T12:15:14","slug":"blithe-spirit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2925","title":{"rendered":"Blithe Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Blithe Spirit<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a comic play by Noel Coward, described by the author as &#8220;an improbable farce in three acts&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium\u00a0and\u00a0clairvoyant\u00a0Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a\u00a0seance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his wilful and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the s\u00e9ance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles&#8217;s marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performed in November 2024 at the Corn Exchange Dorchester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blithe Spirit\u00a0is a comic play by Noel Coward, described by the author as &#8220;an improbable farce in three acts&#8221;. The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium\u00a0and\u00a0clairvoyant\u00a0Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a\u00a0seance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blithe Spirit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2809,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5MaE2-Lb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2925\/revisions\/2926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}