We're pleased to announce the full cast for Noël Coward’s classic comedy Blithe Spirit, opening at Salisbury Playhouse from 2 – 25 October.

Adam Jackson-Smith (Doctors, EastEnders) returns to Salisbury to play Charles Condomine, with Bridgette Amofah (Sandman, A Monster Calls) as his mischievous ex-wife Elvira and Jenny Rainsford (Fleabag, Call the Midwife) as his current wife, Ruth. Susan Wooldridge will take on the role of the eccentric medium Madame Arcati, joined by Gabriella Foley as Edith, Michael Cusick as Doctor Bradman and Fiona Tong as Mrs Bradman.

The production is directed by Anthony Banks, whose credits include the West End and National Tour of The Girl on the Train (originally a Wiltshire Creative production), Footballers’ Wives, Steel Magnolias and a decade as Associate Director at the National Theatre.

Catch this mischievous farce of séances, spirits and marital mayhem in Salisbury this autumn.

Theatre credits include:Lovestuck (Stratford East) A Streetcar Named Desire (Sheffield Crucible);Cowbois (Royal Court / Royal Shakespeare Company); Faustus: That Damned Woman (Chester Storyhouse); A Monster Calls (Bristol Old Vic / The Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C.); A Christmas Carol (Old Vic); Tommy on Top (Above the Stag).

Film credits include:Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part Two, Home, Nosepicker (short).

Television credits include:Sandman (Netflix).

Nominations: Bridgette was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Performer for A MONSTER CALLS at the Kennedy Centre, Washington.

Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Theatre credits include: Noughts & Crosses (Regent's Park Open Air); Edward II (RSC); Bedroom Farce (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch); A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Noises Off (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Sleepless (Analogue Theatre and Staatstheater Mainz); Against Captain’s Orders (Punchdrunk Enrichment); The Good Neighbour (Battersea Arts Centre).

Television credits include:The Sixth Commandment (BBC).

Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Theatre credits include: The LeftBehinds (National Theatre), Flicker (HFH Productions/Bethany Cooper Productions), Royal Welsh 75th Gala at the Globe (Globe/Production 72), Macbeth, Oppenheimer, Flicker, Top Girls, The 39 Steps, Dream (Richard Burton Company), Elegantly Destroy (RWCMD Atmospheres Festival), There’s No Gate, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar (RWCMD), Guide to Not Being a Shit Feminist (Women’s Writes), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Eurydice (Guildhall PAC Company).

Film credits include: Sunday Lunch (NFTS), Growing Pains: Brexit Removal (Richard Pask - BBC Comedy Writers Room).

Television credits include: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (ITV/Silverprint).

Theatre credits include: Fawlty Towers – The Play (Apollo Theatre); Bloody Difficult Women (Riverside Studios); The Girl on the Train (Duke of York’s Theatre & UK Tour); Love on the Links (Salisbury Playhouse); The Real Thing (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre); The First Man (The Jermyn Street Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea (The Watermill); The Rivals (Arcola Theatre); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); The Second Mrs Tanqueray (Rose Theatre); The Illusion (Southwark Playhouse); The Adventure (Hightide Festival); The Phoenix of Madrid, Iphigenia, The Surprise of Love (Theatre Royal, Bath); Enter a Gentleman (Arcola); WLTM, Enduring Voices: The 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic);

Film credits include:Heads of State (Amazon Studios); The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Embankment); Youth (Indigo Films/Number 9); 51 Degrees North (United Films)

Television credits include: Outlander (Starz); FBI: International (CBS); This England (Sky Atlantic); Doctors (BBC); Master of None (Netflix); EastEnders, Casualty (BBC); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures) and Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents (BBC).

Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Theatre credits include:Ivy Tiller: Vicar’s Daughter, Squirrel Killer, The Tempest, Love for Love, Queen Anne (RSC), The Windsors Endgame (Prince of Wales Theatre), Daddy (Almeida Theatre), Double Dealer (The Orange Tree Theatre), The Rivals (The Arcola), Microcosm (Soho Theatre), The Little Black Book (Park Theatre), No Quarter (The Royal Court), The Seagull (Headlong Theatre), Straight (Sheffield/Bush Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (Rose Theatre Kingston).

Film credits include: Persuasion (Netflix), Coffee Wars (Unclaimed Freight Productions), The Favourite (BOP Films), About Time (Working Title), Prometheus, Such a Lovely Day (Element Pictures).

Television credits include: Silent Witness, Showtrial (BBC), Call The Midwife (BBC1), Finding Joy (RTE), Fleabag (BBC 3), Law & Order (ITV), The Smoke (Sky 1), Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz Network).

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre credits include: By Royal Appointment (Lee Dean/Daniel Schumann: UK tour) Summer 1954 (Theatre Royal Bath/Living Theatre Productions: UK tour); Noises Off (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Hamlet (TNT Theatre/ADG: tour of Europe & Central America); Until the Lions (Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg); The Silent Woman (White Bear Theatre); Whistle Down the Wind (Union Theatre); All's Well That Ends Well (The Minack Theatre); The Nightingales (Jenny Topper/Theatre Royal Bath Productions); Richard III (The Cockpit Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coriolanus,The Broken Heart (Royal Shakespeare Company); My Mother Said I Never Should, It's A Girl! (Hull Truck Theatre); Hecuba (Gate Theatre, Notting Hill).

Television credits include: EastEnders; Taggart; Silent Witness.

Recent Theatre includes: Marys Seacole (Donmar) Hay Fever (Glasgow Citzens) Uncle Vanya (Almeida), What The Women Did (Southwark Playhouse), Lay Down Your Cross (Hampstead) Pinter in Cuba (The Print Room and Havana), Snake in The Grass (The Print Room), The Importance of Being Earnest (Regents Park Open Air Theatre) Pinter Sketches (National Theatre), Tonight at 8.30 (Chichester Festival Theatre) Don’t Look Now (Sheffield Crucible/Lyric Hammersmith) Celebration (Almeida/Lincoln Center, New York), A Family Affair (tour) The Deep Blue Sea (Royal Exchange)

Film includes:Hope and Glory (BAFTA Best Supporting Actress), Tamara Drewe, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Twenty-One, Afraid of the Dark, Just Like a Lady and Luc Besson’s The Lady

Television includes:Kaos (Netflix), A Very English Scandal (BBC), The War of the Worlds (BBC), Still Star-Crossed (ABC), The Jewel in the Crown (BAFTA nomination Best Actress, ALVA Award Best Actress) Preston Front,20,000 Streets Under the Sky, Underworld, Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons, Lewis, Midsomer Murders, Bad Company, Pinochet’s Progress, Mrs Bradley Mysteries.

Writing: Susan’s first novel The Hidden Dance was published in 2009 and won The Big Red Read award for Best Debut Novel 2010.

Audio includes: Someone At a Distance by Dorothy Whipple (Persephone Books)