- Playwright – Noël Coward
- Location – Harrogate Theatre Main Stage
- Director – Brian Foster
Cast
- Elvira – Rachel Conyers
- Charles – John Glyn- Jones
- Ruth – Jenny Antram
- Madame Arcati – Sheila McIntosh
- Edith – Lucy Pattison
- Dr Bradman – Stuart Kellett
- Mrs Bradman – Julie Prescott
Charles Condomine is a successful novelist. Ruth is his charming, strong-willed wife.
In order to conduct research for Charles’ latest book, they invite a medium to their home to perform a séance, in for form of eccentric psychic, Madame Arcati.
Madame Arcati summons a ghost from Charles’ past: Elvira – his first wife. Charles can see her, but no one else can. At first Ruth thinks her husband has gone insane. Then, after watching a vase float across the room (thanks to Elvira), Ruth accepts the strange truth.
What follows is a darkly funny competition between two women, one dead, one living. They battle for the possession of their husband. But as the haunting and the hollering continue, Charles begins to wonder if he wants to be with either woman at all.