Directed by Janice Orner
May 8, 9, 15, & 16 @ 7:30pm
May 10* & 17** at 2pm
*ASL-Interpreted Performance
**Relaxed Performance
Shannondell Performing Arts Theater
Audubon, PA
Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1939 comedy play by Joseph Kesselring about a drama critic who discovers his two sweet, elderly aunts are poisoning lonely old men. The play is a farce that takes place in the Brewster home in Brooklyn and involves the aunts’ other nephew, who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt, and a third brother who is a murderer. It was first produced on Broadway in 1941 and is best known for the 1944 film adaptation directed by Frank Capra.
Cast
Kenneth Olin – Rev Dr Harper
Rosemary Gehrlein – Abby Brewster
Rebecca Yenser – Elaine Harper
Samuel Miller – Dr. Einstein
Dean Carter – Officer O’Hara
Dustin Yenser – Jonathan Brewster
David Moyer – Mr. Witherspoon
Jared Maier – Officer Klein
Ben Fickinger – Mortimer Brewster
Linda Cunningham – Martha Brewster
Keith Beecham – Teddy Brewster
John Corkum – Lt. Rooney
Dan Hornberger – Officer Brophy
Harvey Perelman – Mr. Gibbs
Tim April – Mr Hoskins
Production Team
Director – Janice Orner
Producer – Michelle Miller
Producer – Loretta Rurode
Stage Manager – Harvey Perelman
Set Designer – Harvey Perelman
Assistant Set Builder – Steve Montgomery
Set Decoration – Christine Wright
Costumer – Elizabeth Majewski
Props – Ilene Perelman
Lights – Dean Soltes
Sound – Mike Addice
Stage Crew – Megan Orner, Ilene Perelman