Arsenic and Old Lace
by Joseph Kesselring, directed by Peggy Tomlinson
30 March – 1 April 2000
Two charming and innocent elderly sisters, Abby and Martha Brewster, decide that by poisoning their poor, lonely lodgers and burying the bodies in their cellar, they are saving these unfortunates from the sorrows of this world. However, not everybody shares their views. The action takes place in the Brewsters’ living room in Brooklyn, New York. Date: the 1940s. |