Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace is a dark comedy play written by Joseph Kesselring in 1939.
Arsenic and Old Lace is a funny and dark play about Mortimer Brewster, a man who discovers his sweet old aunts are secretly killing lonely old men by poisoning them with arsenic as a "Good deed".
They then bury the bodies in the basement with help from their nephew Teddy, who thinks he’s President Roosevelt and doesn’t know what’s really going on.
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Mortimer scrambles to fix everything and keep the police from finding out. In the end, the aunts are taken away—still smiling—and Mortimer learns a surprising secret about his own family.
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Cast
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MORTIMER ---------------------------- Brian Kuhns
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TEDDY ---------------------------------- Dan Hauser
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JONATHON -------------------------- Matt Johnson
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DR EINSTEIN -------------------------- Willem Kline
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MR GIBBS ---------------------------- David Graham
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DR HARPER --------------------------- Keith Wright
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OHARA --------------------------- Brendan Gaughan
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LT ROONEY ----------------------------- Nick Layng
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OFFICER BROPHY ------------------- Silas Morales
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OFFICER KLEIN ------------------------ Joey Aaron
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ELAINE -------------------------- Taylabai Anderson
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DR WITHERSPOON --------------------- Tim Webb
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ABBY ------------------------------------ Gail Shearer
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MARTHA --------------------------------Odette Little​​​​​​
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