L-P Drama Club students stage a séance gone wrong in ‘Blithe Spirit’

The La Salle-Peru Township High School Drama Club will stage Noel Coward’s classic comedy “Blithe Spirit” this weekend, a student-led production about a novelist haunted by the ghost of his first wife.Performances are at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, and Saturday, Nov. 14, in Matthiessen Memorial Auditorium. Doors open at 5:15 p.m. both nights. Tickets are cash only at the door: $11 for adults, $6 for children and free for seniors and L-P students with student ID. The play, first staged in London in 1941, centers on Charles Condomine, a fussy novelist who has remarried, only for a séance led by the eccentric Madame Arcati to summon the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Only Charles can see and hear Elvira, which is a problem, because Elvira is clever, insistent and well aware of Charles’ shortcomings.The fall play is directed by senior Georgia Buffo and junior Nathan Leffers, under drama club advisor Haley Farringer. Buffo said the club’s cast has a strength in British, old-fashioned com