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Past performances: Arsenic & Old Lace

Arsenic & Old Lace
By Joseph Kesselring

Directed by Kim Ireton
Show dates: November 26-29, 2003

Cast & Production Team
Synopsis

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Cast			Production Team
Actor	Role		Team Member	Role
Tia Ginet	Aunt Abby Brewster		Kim Ireton	Director
Chuck Jordan	Rev. Dr. Harper		Bernadette Tice	Stage Manager
Patrick Pelletier	Teddy Brewster		Candace Appleby	ASM *
Paul Chomos	Police Officer Pat Brophy		Marie McCracken	Costumes
Oscar Olivas	Police Officer Abe Klein		Sharon Eisbrenner	Set Decoration
Carol Krieser	Aunt Martha Brewster		Fred Gallagher	Set Construction
Meghan Pederson	Elaine Harper		James McCullough	Lighting
Colin Grewar	Mortimer Brewster		Melissa Mark	Hair & Makeup
Dwaine Dornan	Mr. Gibbs		Ken Spencer	Artistic Consultant
Mike O'Brien	Jonathan Brewster
James Park	Dr. Herman Einstein
Martin Krieser	Police Officer Joe O'Hara
Blaine Olsen	Police Lieutenant Rooney
Patrick Cherneski	Mr. Witherspoon

* ASM - Assistant Stage Manager

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Synopsis of play
In September 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, in a large old Victorian house just across the cemetery from the Episcopalian church, live two kindly and elderly spinster sisters, Abby and Martha Brewster.  They are well-known for their many kind and generous acts of charity (in stark contrast to the dark stories told about their demented father and grandfather).  Also living in the house are their two nephews: Mortimer, who is a dramatic critic for a major New York newspaper, and Teddy, who suffers from the harmless delusion that he is American President Teddy Roosevelt.  Mortimer is currently seeing Elaine Harper, daughter of Reverend Harper of the Episcopalian church next door.

It starts when Mortimer discovers by accident that his two sweet little old aunts innocently harbour a rather macabre secret, involving the disappearance of lonely old bachelor gentlemen.  Shocked and dismayed, Mortimer hatches a plan to have it all blamed on Teddy, who is demented anyway.  His plan is interrupted by the unexpected and unwelcome arrival of Mortimer's other brother, the sinister Jonathan Brewster and his associate Dr. Einstein (Herman, not Albert).  Jonathan is a psychopathic criminal and killer, on the run from the law, and due to botched plastic surgery done by Dr. Einstein he currently bears the scary face of Boris Karloff.  Jonathan's plan is to use Grandfather's old laboratory to have Dr. Einstein give him a new face and then make his escape.  Madcap shenanigans ensue as Mortimer tries to get rid of Jonathan, Jonathan tries to get rid of Mortimer, and the police are none the wiser!

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