Arsenic and Old Lace:Drama critic Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, distraught nephew of the two gentle, sweet old Brewster sisters, Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha, known for their charitable acts in their Brooklyn neighborhood. One of their charity acts is to poison lonely old men with their elderberry wine, laced with arsenic, to end their loneliness, and bury them with a proper Christian ceremony in the cellar. The aunts are assisted by their bizarre, eccentric nephew, Teddy who thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. Their long lost brother, Jonathan is a psychopath with a cold body of his own and no qualms about rubbing out immediate family. He is accompanied by Dr. Einstein a demented plastic surgeon. Will the insanity consume Mortimer and affect his relationship with his fiancé or will the truth concerning the "family secret" save Mortimer?

Produced with special permission from Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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The Cast and Crew.

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