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BLITHE SPIRIT: Know-The-Show Guide The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey BLITHE SPIRIT: Know-the-Show Guide Blithe Spirit By Noël Coward Know-the-Show Audience Guide Researched and written by the Education Department of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Cover art by Scott McKowen. The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey BLITHE SPIRIT: Know-the-Show Guide In This Guide – The Life of Noël Coward ...................................................................................... 2 – A Man with Style ................................................................................................. 4 – Séances and Spiritualism in Coward’s Day ........................................................... 5 – Blithe Spirit: A Synopsis ....................................................................................... 7 – Who’s Who in Blithe Spirit ................................................................................... 8 – Explore Online: Links .......................................................................................... 9 – Commentary and Criticism ................................................................................ 10 – In This Production .............................................................................................. 11 – The Music of Noël Coward ................................................................................ 12 – Sources and Further Reading ............................................................................. 13 1 The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey BLITHE SPIRIT: Know-the-Show Guide spending away from school because The Life of the theater, and at an auditorium- style psychic performance by fortune- teller Anna Eva Fay, Mrs. Coward asked for advice on the upbringing Noël Coward of her son. Miss Fay replied, “Mrs. Noël Peirce Cowardof was born on December 16, 1899, in Coward, Mrs. Coward. You asked me Teddington, England. His parents, Arthur and Violet Veitch about your son. Keep him where he Coward, were not wealthy; his father was an unsuccessful piano is. He has a great talent and will have salesman. His mother gave him his name because of the close a wonderful career.” Violet never proximity of his birthday to Christmas. questioned his path again. While in Manchester with a young touring Violet took young Noël to the theater as often as possible. After company, Coward and his co-stars seeing a show, he was frequently able to play the greater part of were forced by law to attend school. the musical score from memory on the family piano. As a child, Coward announced to the teacher Noël Coward as a teenager, Noël had a lisp which forced him to develop his trademark that he had no intention of answering ca. 1914 (Source: Wikimedia Commons). clipped, staccato speech to mask it. At the age of six, he started any questions, and if he should be working as a child actor. Charles Hawtrey had seen Noël perform punished in any way he would go and instantly recognized his potential. Hawtrey recruited him for back to London. From that moment on he sat in the back of the a production of The Great Name and used him again in 1911 in classroom reading whatever book he chose. A lifetime of reading the premiere of Where the Rainbow Ends, which became such a and keen observation made up for his lack of formal education. popular show that it was revived every year at Christmas-time for 40 years. Coward returned for three of those years and learned In 1921, at the age of 22, Coward left England and went to stagecraft and playwriting from Hawtrey. New York City. He arrived with very little money and just before the theaters closed for the hot summer. His hope of selling Coward did not receive a very traditional education. At one point, his plays to American theatre companies fell through immediately. his mother became concerned about how much time he was He was broke, hungry, and lonely. After surviving the summer 2 The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey BLITHE SPIRIT: Know-the-Show Guide that he cemented long-lasting and life- DID YOU KNOW? changing friendships with Lynn Fontanne 1) Noël Coward and Alfred Lunt. One evening over worked undercover for dinner, the three friends predicted British Intelligence during they would all become international WWII. superstars of equal magnitude, and 2) Coward was offered, and they prophesied that Coward would turned down, the role of Dr. write the perfect play in which all No in Ian Fleming’s Dr. No, a James Bond film starring Sean three of them would star. This self- Connery. prophecy, like the fortune-teller’s pronouncement, would come true – 3) Coward started the turtleneck fashion fad though not for another 12 years, when of the 1920s. Coward’s play Design for Living provided the opportunity of which he and the Lunts had dreamed. On his 25th birthday, Coward’s first big hit, The Vortex, premiered in London’s West End. Shortly after opening this show, two more – Fallen Angels and On With the Dance – were up and running in the West End. This was the beginning of the high degree of celebrity that Coward enjoyed for the rest of his life. Until his death on Noël Coward in 1972 in a picture taken for his last Christmas card. March 3, 1973, Noël Coward continued to work as a dramatist, Photograph by Allan Warren (Source: Wikimedia Commons). actor, writer, composer, lyricist, and painter. He wrote over 140 on meager means, he managed to sell two short stories, “I’ll plays and hundreds of songs. Three years before he died, he was Leave It To You” and “The Young Idea,” for $500 each. He used knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. this money to improve his situation and pay back his debts to those who had helped him through the summer. It was at this time 3 The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey BLITHE SPIRIT: Know-the-Show Guide A Man with In the early to mid-20th century, when Coward began writing, English comedy was characterized by a stereotypical English repression. Coward, however, attacked taboo subjects. While Coward explored heterosexual relations overtly, he commented on homosexual orientation in more subtle ways – enough to spark style the attention of the new generation without explicitly offending Noël Coward is known for a the older generation. The word “gay” had not yet become very distinct style in both his synonymous with “homosexual,” and, according to scholar Alan writing and his personality. Sinfield, Coward used this to his advantage “stretching [the word’s] His work explores many social connotations—almost playing on the fact that there [was] not issues but also epitomizes a specific homosexual implication.” His songs also dealt with glamorous living through homosexuality via seemingly innocent lyrics, as Coward reveled the structure, language, and in the misunderstanding of a large portion of his audience who did content of his plays. not read between the lines. Similar to Oscar Wilde before Coward’s plays, with their unique and sophisticated veneer, him, Coward makes heavy use are as much social commentary as they are entertainment. By of paradox. He first draws the ending his plays with a sense of life continuing after the curtain audience in with charm and has descended, Coward leads the audience to question societal A 1932 portrait of Noël Coward by humor and then reveals the Edward Steichen (Source: Whitney norms in their own lives. By confronting social conventions in this Museum). foibles or hypocrisies in the way, Coward did not endear himself to everyone. But as he once characters that have won our wrote, “I write what I wish to write — later the world can decide affection. Clever use of language is key to Coward’s development [what to think about it] if it wishes to. There will always be a few of character. Always eloquent, his characters often use biting wit people, anyway, in every generation, who will find my work to mask their emotional states. Strategic use of song and music entertaining and true.” also helps dictate the tempo and mood of individual scenes, and Coward’s precise writing guides the actors through intense psychological and often comic minefields. 4 The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey BLITHE SPIRIT: Know-the-Show Guide mediums began to spring up around the country and in Britain. Popular mediums of the day included the Séances & Davenport Brothers, Leafy Anderson, and Paschal Beverly Randolph. Spiritualism In order to earn a living, these mediums would either perform on in Coward’s Day stage or hold a séance at someone’s Spiritualism and séances (from the archaic French word seoir, home – for a fee. Each medium meaning to sit) first rose to popularity in 1848 when three sisters in had their own unique method of New York – Leah, Margaret, and Kate Fox – claimed that they could contacting the dead: communicate with a spirit that was haunting their home. In order to •The Fox Sisters and the The Fox Sisters. From left to right: Davenport Brothers used knocks Margaret, Kate, and Leah. prove that they were telling the truth, they sat around a table in their (Source: Wikipedia.) local town hall in the presence of 400 people and asked the spirit a on a table in order receive number of questions. Their method of communication was a series answers to the questions they of knocks on the table: one for yes and two for no. They quickly rose posed to the spirit world. to fame and traveled the country with their act, acquiring the title of •Leafy Anderson used a spirit guide in the spiritual realm in order “mediums,” referring to their assumed ability to convey or transmit to communicate with people on the other side. She claimed that
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