ARSENIC & OLD LACE
A Comedy By Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Deborah Pedretti
WHEN: June 13 – 29. All performances are Friday evenings at 8 PM, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 3 PM
WHERE: Playhouse 22 is conveniently located at the East Brunswick Community Arts Center at 721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick
TICKETS: $22 for adults and $20 for seniors and students and are available online at Playhouse22.org, by calling the Box Office at 732.254.3939 or at the Box Office window.
What’s Mortimer Brewster to do? He discovers his two spinster aunts 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 while his crazy brother breezes through the scene believing he’s Teddy Roosevelt. With local policemen dropping by without any warning, Mortimer realizes dealing with this family is enough to make a man regret getting engaged to the woman he loves. And then his murderous brother Jonathan decides to come home…
Arsenic & Old Lace has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra.
Cast
- Gregory Newton: Rev. Dr. Harper
- Ashley Kipness: Elaine Harper
- Eric McDonough: Jonathan Brewster
- Rupert Ravens: Teddy Brewster
- Zach Caruso: Mortimer Brewster
- Deby Brandt: Abby Brewster
- Leslie Hochman: Martha Brewster
- Tony Rossi: Dr. Einstein
- Peter Reimann: Officer O’Hara
- Arnold Brown: Officer Klein
- Frank Takacs: Officer Brophy
- Bill Poppe: Lieutenant Rooney/Mr. Gibbs
- Ray Kelton: Mr. Witherspoon
