Theatre reviews: Blithe Spirit, Pitlochry Festival Theatre | The Crucible, Pitlochry Festival Theatre | Amelie The Musical, King’s Theatre, Edinburgh
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THERE’S a powerful initial shock, in seeing Noel Coward’s great 1941 comedy Blithe Spirit briskly moved forward into the age of mobile phones and iPads; yet in this second show of Pitlochry’s summer season, the theatre’s former associate director Gemma Fairlie and a terrific seven-strong cast make a brilliant job of demonstrating just how how much Coward’s searing insights into love, sex and marriage still have to tell us about the way we live now.