"Blithe Spirit" - by Noël Coward - New Players Theatre Guild (Fitchburg, MA.) - AUDITIONS
New Players Theatre Guild
Will Be Holding AUDITIONS for
Noël Coward's
"BLITHE SPIRIT"
Written by Noël Coward
Directed by Martha Brooks
New Players Theatre Guild Center for the Performing Arts, 15 Rollstone Street, Fitchburg, MA. 01420
AUDITION DATES:
July 31, 2025 at 7:00pm;
August 2, 2025 at 2:00pm;
Callbacks August 4, 2025 at 7:00pm (if needed).
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
- Charles Condomine - A novelist. Charles is bright, sophisticated, articulate, and debonair but somewhat at the mercy of his wives, past and present. His interest in spiritualism as a subject for a novel leads Charles to ask Madame Arcati to dinner and a séance. He is skeptical but becomes a believer when the ghost of his first wife appears—and stays.
- Ruth Condomine - Charles’s second wife. Like her husband, Ruth is witty and sophisticated, and she is quite the society matron. Ruth is a bit stuffy and a little predictable. She is convinced that Charles has lost his mind when Elvira appears. Ruth acts as a concerned wife, trying to restore Charles to normalcy.
- Elvira - Ghost of Charles’s first wife. Only Charles can see or hear her. In life, Elvira was spirited, outgoing, wild, and carefree. In death, she is no different; she socializes with Genghis Khan. She does love Charles, if somewhat casually, and is jealous of Ruth.
- Madame Arcati - Local spiritualist and medium. Elderly but spry, Madame Arcati communicates with an eight-year-old contact on the other side. She truly is in contact with the other world and inadvertently is the “medium” through which Elvira is called back to this one. She is eccentric, effusive and boisterous.
- Dr. George Bradman - Good friend of the Condomines who is invited to dinner and the séance. He is entirely skeptical of anything to do with the occult but tries his utmost to go along with the proceedings for the sake of Charles’ research.
- Violet Bradman - Dr. Bradman’s wife. Simple and naïve, she is quite excited about being in the presence of the medium, whom she finds fascinating.
- Edith – The Condomine’s maid. She is nervous and tears around at breakneck speed trying to do things right and make a good impression.
Performances:
October 10, 2025 through October 19, 2025
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TICKETS:
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ABOUT THE SHOW
In Noël Coward's "BLITHE SPIRIT" in order to research material on the occult for his next book, novelist Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth host two of their friends for dinner and invite the eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to join them and finish off the evening with a séance.
Though the hosts are skeptical of Madame Arcati’s actual clairvoyance, the séance works and the spirit of Charles’ temperamental first wife, Elvira, returns from beyond the grave- at first just her voice, but then she just walks right in through the French doors.
Unhappy with the fact that Charles has remarried and remaining only able to be seen and heard by him and not Ruth, Elvira takes the opportunity to disrupt his marriage through a good old classic haunting.
Things take an even steeper turn when Elvira eventually makes an attempt on Charles’ life so that he may join her in the afterlife.
ABOUT NEW PLAYERS THEATRE GUILD (NPTG)
The goal of NEW PLAYERS THEATRE GUILD (NPTG) is to foster and promote an active interest in community theater. It is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging people of all ages to participate in the joy of creating quality theater for the Montachusett area audiences. NPTG presents small to medium-scale musical productions and musical reviews for the public as well as straight plays. NEW PLAYERS THEATRE GUILD was founded in 1975 and varies in membership size, but has, at times grown to a membership of over 120 people. The group is managed by a Board of Directors, elected yearly by the membership, as well as several committees that carry out the various activities of the organization.
15 Rollstone Street
Fitchburg, MA. 01420
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