ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Presented by The Drama Workshop
Sept. 12-28
Cheviot
Directed by Lynn Aronson
Cast: Dee Dunn as Abby Brewster, Valeria Amburgey as Martha Brewster, Dan Maloney as Mortimer, Elizabeth Molloy as Elaine, Chris Bishop as Teddy, Ron Samad as Jonathan, Doug Tumeo as Dr. Einstein, Tim Palmer as Officer O’Hara, Jason Cox as Officer Klein, Ray Lebowski as Officer Brophy, Jim Meridieth as Lieutenant Rooney, Clint Bramkamp as Witherspoon & Jim Bussey as Rev. Dr.Harper
This farcical comedy revolves around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. 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 Theodore 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, to conceal his identity – he now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff. This classic, laugh-a-minute comedy is a must for all audiences.
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 12-13 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 14 at 2pm
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 19-20 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 21 at 2pm
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 26-27 at 8pm
- Sun, Sept. 28 at 2pm
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