March 28: Blithe Spirit

Today was a pretty normal day, mostly. I had a nice, relaxing morning, then went to theatre class, then came home and made dinner out of one of the instant rice meals Nana and Papa sent me awhile back and some chicken that I mixed in. It turned out to be a very nice supper. At 7:30, I went to Piccadilly Circus to see a Noel Coward show called "Blithe Spirit." It was a nice, light-hearted, comedic show. The basic plot was that a man doing research for a novel about the occult accidentally conjures up the ghost of his dead first wife with the accidental help of his second wife and a silly psychic. Since only he can see the first wife at first, this causes all sorts of trouble with his second wife, until the first wife discovers she can move objects around, thus making the conflict a whole lot worse. Long story short, the first wife accidentally kills the second wife hoping to kill the husband (so they could live in the spirit world together), so the poor guy has two ghost wives who are trapped and can't find their way back to the land of the dead. It was a hilariously funny show, and just what I needed after seeing several not-so-funny plays in the past few weeks. The actors were all quite well-known, especially the first wife, who was played by Ruthie Henshall, a musical theater actress I am quite familiar with, and the psychic, Alison Steadman, a popular British actress who I know best for being Mrs. Bennett in the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice. Altogether, it was a wonderful evening.