Arsenic and Old Lace
August 15-18 and 22-25, 2019
By Joseph Kesselring
The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster and his slightly crazy family. He has two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them, 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; he thinks that they died of yellow fever); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery to conceal his identity, and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff. Through the midst of all this, Mortimer thinks he is ready to marry the girl next door, but, should he bring her into this madness?
Cast & Crew
Director - Andrew Miller
Cast
Mortimer Brewster - Josh Hendricks
Elaine Harper - Lauren Helena
Abby Brewster - Louisa Grant
Martha Brewster - Kelly Banks
Teddy Brewster - Chaz Ferguson
Jonathan Brewster - Ralph Myers
Dr. Einstein - Alexander Cain
Officer Brophy - Kevin Wilkins
Officer Klein / Dead Bodies- Joseph Hardy
Officer O'Hara - Rob Stowe
The Rev. Dr. Harper - Jared Wright
Mr. Witherspoon - Matt Perdue
Mr. Gibbs / Lieutenant Roony- Tony Daniel
Performance Photography
Photography: Susan Crutchfield Photography
