Event

PPP presents ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

Possum Point Players 2019 presents
America's Most Beloved Farce

*** ARSENIC AND OLD LACE ***

written by Joseph Kesselring
directed by John H. Hulse

Fridays SEP 13 and SEP 20 at 7:30p
Saturdays SEP 14 and SEP 21 at 7:30p
Sundays SEP 15 and SEP 22 at 2:00p

Tickets - $20 Adults; $19 Students/Seniors

ABOUT THE PLAY...
Arsenic and Old Lace is a farcical comedy revolving around the Brewster family, descended from the Mayflower settlers, but now composed of insane homicidal maniacs. The hero, Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves, Elaine Harper, who lives next door and is the daughter of the local minister.

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; he thinks that they died of yellow fever); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) to conceal his identity, and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played on Broadway by Karloff). Hilarity throughout!