Thursday, October 23, 1975
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Hashinger season opens with play, 'Blithe Spirit'
The Hashinger Theater will take a humorous look at the upper middle class in its production of "Bilthe Spirit," which opens Saturday night.
The Noel Coward play will be presented at 8 p.m. Oct. 25, 26 and 31 and Nov. 1.
"The play is witty and clever," director Anne Abrams said Monday. "It's written to make fun of upper middle classes. Coward belonged to the class he made fun of, and he was as a lait's laugh at ourselves' approach as opposed to heavy social comment."
The main character of "Bilte Spirit" is Charles Condine, an English novelist. His first wife, Elvira, died seven years earlier, and he has since retired. During a seance that he holds in his home to gather material for a new novel, Elvira turns away, but then returns to Condine and his new wife. But only Condine can see or hear this spirit.
There are two twists to the play: Elvira's secret plan, and an unexpected turn of fate.
Coward wrote the play in one weekend, Arams said, and he changed only two lines of it after that. It opened three weeks later and was an instant success, she said.
Although the play is English. Abrams
won't have the actors speak with an English accent. She said she wanted only to create a flair that suggested a different time and place, and the audience were looking at a framed picture.
"I've cut a little out of the play because some of it is the kind of thing that wouldn't relate to American audiences," she said.
Most of the lines she cut made some reference to English society that might not be readily understood by Americans, she said.
"I chose the play because I thought it would be good for the students to do," she said. "It's a sophisticated play, and although it offers a challenge to the students, there haven't been any problems with it so far."
The cast of "Bilute Spirit" is: Jim Stringer, Prairie Village junior; Janet Kearney, Olathe senior; Valerie J. Meyers, Overland Park senior; Misty Maynard, Winfield graduate student; Mary Lakey, Leawood junior; Kevin Kinkead, Mission junior; and Mary Purcell, Austin, Minn., sophomore.
The set was designed by Abrams and other students from Hashinger.
Hashinger Hall Theatre is on the main floor lounge of Hashinger, and can accommodate 100 people. A 50-cent donation will be taken at the door.
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