The University of Findlay will present “Blithe Spirit” at 8 p.m. Nov. 11-13 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 14 in the John and Hester Powell Grimm Theatre, located in the Egner Center for the Performing Arts.            

Tickets are $5 for general admission; $3 for students and seniors; and free for UF faculty, staff and students. Tickets are available from the UF Box Office. Call 419-434-5335, and tickets may be available at the door.

Noel Coward’s witty and eerily funny comic farce, “Blithe Spirit,” introduces audiences to the English countryside where audience members meet the charming and well-to-do Condomines. 

Charles Condomine, a cynical mystery novelist, and his equally skeptical second wife, Ruth, invite the local spiritualist, eccentric and feisty Madame Arcati, to their quaint home in order to procure research for Charles’ newest book.

When Madame Arcati performs a séance for the Condomines and their dinner guests, the result is infinitely more than Charles or Ruth imagined.  Charles’ first wife, Elvira, who passed on seven years prior, is magically summoned and the audience soon realizes that, indeed, three can certainly be a crowd. 

Written in 1941 in an effort to provide a comic escape for audiences of war torn England, Coward’s “improbable farce” is just as delightful and “spirited” now as it was during the play’s original inception.

Heather Williams, instructor of theater, is the director.