Upcoming performances

Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward

29-31 October 2025 in the Reading Room, Ovingham

To mark our 50th anniversary, we will be putting on a production of Noël Coward’s classic comedy, Blithe Spirit. This was the very first play we produced, in 1976.

Charles, a successful novelist, organises a séance with the eccentric medium Madame Arcati as part of his research into the occult for his next novel. He gets a lot more than he bargained for when the séance attracts the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira – a beautiful, fun-loving, sarcastic, argumentative, and ‘spirited’ presence. Determined to reclaim Charles, Elvira immediately sets out to wreck his marriage to his second wife, Ruth.

With Ruth unable to see Elvira, things quickly spiral into a characteristically Cowardian mix of hilarity, drama and farce as events take ever more unexpected turns.

Join us this October in Halloween season – for a ghost story with a difference.

Tickets

We will be putting on three performances, on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of October 2025. All performances start at 7.30pm and will be in the Reading Room, Ovingham.

Tickets cost £10 and can be ordered using the form below, with payment made at the door on the day of the performance. Please use the drop-down list to select the number of tickets you want, and click on ‘Add to cart’. If you then click on ‘Cart’, there is a very simple check-out process. Please click through until you come to the “Payment confirmation” page.

You will receive email confirmation of your order. They may end up in your spam folder, so please check there as well. If you do not receive confirmation by email, please contact us at tickets@ovinghamdrama.org.uk so we can confirm that the order has gone through.

If you find the form confusing, just send an email to tickets@ovinghamdrama.org.uk and we’ll reserve the tickets for you.

Wednesday, 29 October

Thursday, 30 October

Friday, 31 October