Channelling voices, raising the dead, audiences eager to believe … spiritualism makes great theatre. Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is a comedy classic haunted by a host of spectres and showmenIn 1911, the famed American medium Anna Eva Fay held a public seance at the London Coliseum, inviting audience members to ask questions that she would answer by channelling the dead. Seated in the auditorium was Violet C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PM on March 4, 2014