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.
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.
Cast
MORTIMER - Brian Kuhns
TEDDY - Dan Hauser
JONATHON - Matt Johnson
DR EINSTEIN - Willem Kline
MR GIBBS - David Graham
DR HARPER - Keith Wright
OHARA - Brendan Gaughan
LT ROONEY - Nick Layng
OFFICER BROPHY - Silas Morales
OFFICER KLEIN - Joey Aaron
ELAINE - Taylabai Anderson & Tim Webb
ABBY - Gail Shearer
MARTHA - Odette Little