ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
By Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Emily Fitzgerald
Performance Dates: October 11-27, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm | Sundays at 2pm
Thursday Pay What You Can Performance on October 17th at 7:30pm
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police—not to mention Mortimer’s own hesitancy about marriage—it’ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.
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Sensory Notes: Arsenic and Old Lace will feature bugle blasts and suitcase drops, dim lighting, and blackouts. Show is appropriate for all ages (10+), mild humor and innuendos, depictions of murder, mental illness, and stage violence.