ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

WRITER

JOSEPH KESSELRING

DIRECTOR

SUSAN LECKI

PRODUCER

MALONEY HIGH SCHOOL PROPS AND PAINTS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

"The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with a honeymoon with the woman he loves and has recently agreed to marry. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine and "just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff."- as written on wikipedia.com

Arsenic and Old Lace 'S CAST

Kristin Ceneviva