Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elegant English cottage, the soothing strains of Ella singing "Always" wafting in the background, fresh flowers on the table and a decanter of wine waiting for you. Suddenly, from stage left, caustic British wit slices through the air and shatters the soft stillness. This, my friends, is a Noel Coward play...
...other words, Lyric Stage's production of Blithe Spirit fits the mold. Just as Coward himself was perceived in the first half of the century, it deserves both adoration and derision. Blithe Spirit is splendidly witty at some points and horribly tedious in others...
...summons the delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...
...actors attempt--sometimes successfully--to overcome Coward's theatrical missteps. The effortless performance of Mara Clark as Madam Arcati is the highlight of this show. She alone is able to transcend the weighty constraints of her character and convince the audience of her authenticity...
...just spent 10 minutes strangling rise up and wander down the street. "Usually when a man's eyes roll back like that, he's thoroughly kilt.'" It may be quibbling to object that Zeke does not sound very Cherokee in this passage. No matter; if Noel Coward could have written such scenes, he might have made something of himself...