COMING SOON:
The play revolves around the Brewster family, composed mainly of maniacs, some of them homicidal. The hero, Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, murderous family and local police in Fremantle, Western Australia as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves.
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 General Haig and the cellar of the Brewster home (which serves as graves for the aunts' victims) are the trenches of Gallipoli; and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Edelsten to conceal his identity, and now has a face "like dropped meat pie".
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. This adaption is based on the 1946 screenplay by B.S. George and has been contextualised to Australia by Tim McGrath in 2020.
Title music: Bandas Sonoras "Sad Clown" (Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY)
Incidental music: Igor Leontyev "Don't Be Sad" (Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY)
COMING SOON:
The play revolves around the Brewster family, composed mainly of maniacs, some of them homicidal. The hero, Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, murderous family and local police in Fremantle, Western Australia as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves.
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 General Haig and the cellar of the Brewster home (which serves as graves for the aunts' victims) are the trenches of Gallipoli; and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Edelsten to conceal his identity, and now has a face "like dropped meat pie".
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. This adaption is based on the 1946 screenplay by B.S. George and has been contextualised to Australia by Tim McGrath in 2020.
Title music: Bandas Sonoras "Sad Clown" (Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY)
Incidental music: Igor Leontyev "Don't Be Sad" (Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY)