Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace is the Classic Black Comedy from Joseph Kesserling. Drama critic Mortimer Brewsters engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women arent just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks hes Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the policenot to mention Mortimers own hesitancy about marriageitll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family. (www.dramatists.com)