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"Arsenic
and Old Lace"
by Joseph Kesselring
Rich Resler, Director
April Isom, Assistant Director
Abby Brewster - Jane Kohl
Martha Brewster - Julie Oliver
Mortimer Brewster - Mitch Resler
Elaine Harper - Stephanie McWhorter
Teddy Brewster - Andy Hunter
Jonathan Brewster - Jon Brown
Dr. Einstein - Bill Moss
Officer O'Hara - Ben Whitehead
Officer Brophy - Alan Segers
Officer Klein - Jonathan Chisolm
Lieutenant Rooney - Nicholas Hayes
Rev. Dr. Harper - Don Clemons
Mr. Gibbs - Jason Friend
Dr. Witherspoon - Ed Shirley Rehearsal Schedule
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Performances:
October 9 -11 and 15 -18, 2009 |
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For more information call the WBS office 582-7469 or e-mail
arsenic@wholebackstage.com
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Play Synopsis
One of the zaniest collections of characters ever assembled in one play make
audiences both shudder and roar with laughter in Arsenic and Old Lace. This
play of hilarity and homicide tells the story of the wacky Brewster family
members whose love for charity has taken an alarmingly murderous turn.
Theater critic Mortimer Brewster is visiting his spinster aunts – the sweet,
puttering Abby and Martha. When Mortimer finds a dead body in the window
seat of their home he at first thinks the murderer is his brother Teddy, who
most of his time under the impression that he is really Teddy Roosevelt and
that the Panama Canal runs through the cellar of his home. Mortimer soon
learns his aunts are serving up a lethal brew of arsenic, strychnine,
cyanide, and elderberry wine to elderly male visitors, and are quite
nonchalant about doing so.
Mortimer’s brother, Jonathan, appears and struggles to retain his rightful
title as America’s most prolific criminal. He is accompanied by Doctor
Einstein, whose job it is to surgically change Jonathan's face every time he
has completed one of his crimes.
When all these people get together on a September afternoon, in a quiet
house on a quiet street in Brooklyn, the repercussions almost unhinge
Mortimer – the one sane member of the Brewster clan – and completely
befuddle the Brooklyn police force.
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