Arsenic and Old Lace - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater… (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1939; vuoden 1944 painos)

Cute yarn, fun characters, saw the end coming. ( )

Cute yarn, fun characters, saw the end coming. ( )

Subtle dark humor. Hilarious play. ( )

This entertaining play about a very strange family is sure to entertain the more educated students in high school. Mortimer brings his newlywed to his aunts’ house in Brooklyn and that is where the strangeness begins. He is a critic who throughout these well-written humorous scenes, realizes his aunts are killing old men and burying them in the basement of their house by their nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. I would only recommend this play to students who have background information about the Panama Canal and the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt; they will find it much more humorous. ( )

This is a sublimely funny play - and even better when Mary Anne Canaday and I are doing it. We did this in Abbeville, SC - and, boy, is there a lot of silverware to fuss with. You know, you can act your arse off, but sometimes all you have to do is come out on stage in mourning and an audience cracks up.