Schoolhouse Arts Center presents the zany, macabre comedy Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring weekends October 7-23 at the Schoolhouse on Rte. 114 at Sebago Lake Village. Seniors will remember the classic 1944 film version of the play starring Cary Grant and Josephine Hull.
In a quaint house in Brooklyn live two sweet little old ladies, Martha and Abby Brewster. They enjoy having a lonely elderly gentleman or two over for company and a little elderberry wine. They feel a calling to comfort these poor souls with "safe passage to the great beyond." Then they enlist their bugle-blowing nephew Teddy "Roosevelt" Brewster to bury the men at his Panama Canal dig in their cellar. When drama critic nephew Mortimer Brewster returns with his lovely fiancée Elaine to visit his dear aunts, he tries to put a stop to their killer hospitality. However, nephew Jonathan Brewster, an insane, Boris Karloff look alike, and his companion Dr. Einstein, who are also visiting with Aunts Martha and Abby, further complicate the situation.
Directed by Michael Hjort, this hilarious American theatre classic offers outrageous characters and improbable plot twists at a non-stop pace right up to the delicious climax. The cast features lead actors Helene Quint and Pam Rodgers as Aunts Abby and Martha Brewster, Darrin Landry as Mortimer Brewster, Andrea Lopez as Elaine Harper, Bill Montalvo as Jonathan Brewster, Richard Dunlap as Teddy "Roosevelt" Brewster, and John Mosey as Dr. Einstein.
Performances run weekends October 7-23 Fri./Sat. at 8 PM and Sun. at 2 PM.
Tickets cost $14 for students and seniors and $16 for adults. Box office opens 1 hour prior to the show. For reservations, call 642-3743.
The cast of "Arsenic & Old Lace" seated from left to right: Helene Quint as Abby Brewster and Pamela Rodgers as Martha Brewster; standing from left to right: William Montalvo as Jonathan Brewster, John Mosey as Dr. Einstein, Andrea Lopez as Elaine Harper, Darrin Landry as Mortimer Brewster, and Richard Dunlap as Teddy Brewster.