Performance - Arsenic and Old Lace

Authors/Playwrights: Joseph Kesselring

Directed by: Richard Butler

It’s 1941 and life is good for New York drama critic Mortimer Brewster. While visiting his kindly spinster aunts in their quiet Brooklyn neighborhood, he has fallen in love with the minister’s daughter from the church next door and has just become engaged to be married. Sure, his older brother is convinced that he is Teddy Roosevelt, but other than that, all is well for the Brewster family. However, over the course of one long night, Mortimer discovers that his aunts have been keeping secrets from him, and some of those secrets are buried in the cellar. On the same evening his psychotic oldest brother, who bears a grudge against Mortimer, decides to return home to hide from a police manhunt. While trying to protect his aunts FROM the law, turn his older brother IN TO the law, and avoid a Brooklyn cop who is an over-enthusiastic aspiring playwright, Mortimer must decide whether getting married and continuing the Brewster line of lunatics is the responsible thing to do to his fiancée and to the world! Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.

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