Why Noël Coward's shows must go on
Directors Michael Blakemore and Blanche McIntyre discuss their productions of Blithe Spirit and Tonight at 8.30Michael Blakemore, aged 85, is directing Angela Lansbury in Sir Noël Coward's three-act play Blithe Spirit in the West End. Meanwhile the director Blanche McIntyre, 33, is staging Coward's Tonight at 8.30, a series of nine one-act plays, on tour. Here, they swap ideas about his plays and his politics Co…