Title: Blithe Spirit
Date: August 1976
Type: Play
Company: Royal National Theatre
Location: Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre, London, England
Playwright: Noël Coward
Director: Harold Pinter
Collection Folder: Folder 30

Cast

Edith: Susan Williamson
Ruth: Rowena Cooper
Charles: Richard Johnson
Dr Bradman: Geoffrey Chater
Mrs Bradman: Joan Hickson
Madame Arcati: Elizabeth Spriggs
Elvira: Maria Aitken

Crew

For Blithe Spirit

Settings: Eileen Diss
Costumes: Robin Fraser Paye
Lighting: Richard Pilbrow
Staff Director: Harry Lomax
Production Manager: Marshall Goodhew
Stage Manager: Diana Boddington
Deputy Stage Manager: Karen Stone
Assistant Stage Manager: Ian Buckingham, Kate Salberg
Sound: Sylvia Carter

For the Royal National Theatre

Director: Peter Hall
General Administrator: Peter Stevens
Deputy Director: Michael Birkett
Deputy to the General Administrator: Vivian Nixson
Assistant to the Director: Sue Higginson
Personnel Manager: Liz Kennedy

Associate Directors: Harrison Birtwhistle, Michael Blakemore, John Russell Brown, Bill Bryden, John Bury, Michael Kustow, Harold Pinter, John Schlesinger

Company Administrator: Michael Hallifax
Senior Staff Director: Kenneth Mackintosh
Casting: Gillian Diamond
Casting Assistant: Ann Robinson
Music: David Tod Boyd
Voice: Catherine Fleming

Technical Administrator: Simon Ralph
Deputy to Technical Administrator: Donald Mackintosh
General Stage Manager: Jason Barnes
Carpentry Shop: Alan Walker
Paint Frame: Leslie Woolnough
Property Supervisor: Bryan R. Graves
Production Buyer: Richard Christie
Property Maker: Peter Owen
Armorer: Reg Owen
Costume Supervisor: Ivan Alderman
Chief Cutter: Stephen Skaptason
Gentlemen’s Tailoring: Frank Davidson

Sound: Julian Beech
Master Carpenter: Peter Kidd
Chief Electrician: Leonard Tucker
Property Master: Thomas Connor
Wardrobe Master: Sean Casey
Wig Mistress: Joyce Beagarie

Financial Administrator: Douglas Gosling
Chief Accountant: Robert Harrison
Deputy Chief Accountant: W.G.R. Thom
Publicity and Publications Administrator: John Goodwin
Publicists: William Allen, Vivien Wallace

Theatre Manager: Tom Pate
House Manager: Tim Flood
Assistant Manager: Terry McEntee
Bookshops Manager: Joan Pritchett
Building Services Manager: Douglas Cornelisson
Electrical Engineer: Roy Gobell
Electronic Engineer: Ivor Godsmark
Mechanical Engineer: Philip Rees
Safety Manager: John Pack
Housekeeper: Harry Henderson
Senior Box Office Manager: Roger Lobb
Box Office Manager: John Ball

Programme Printed By: Battley Brothers Printed Ltd., London

Notes

Additional Material: A Flyer for the National Theatre’s 1976 Summer Season at The Young Vic, and a National Theatre Notes leaflet for August 1976

Production opened Thursday 24th June 1976

A written date on the front of the programme notes the original owner attended a performance on Wednesday 25th August