He is honored and humbled and couldn’t be more pleased to be directing the classic Arsenic and Old Lace. The movie version, released in 1944, was also a comedy hit.ĭave Carter is excited to be back directing the opening show of the season for The Colonial Players. Arsenic and Old Lace was an international hit, running for 1,337 performances in London, and became a staple on the high school, community, and dinner theater circuits. He completed 12 original plays, four of which were produced on Broadway: There's Wisdom in Women, Arsenic and Old Lace, Four Twelves Are 48, and Mother of That Wisdom. After a two-year stint as a vocal music teacher at Bethel College, he left that Mennonite institution and began working as a freelance playwright in 1933. Kesselring was born in New York City in 1902 and spent much of his life in and around the theater. Joseph Otto Kesselring was an American playwright best known for Arsenic and Old Lace, a hit comedy that ran for 1,444 performances on Broadway from 1941 to 1944. To download the production postcard for Arsenic and Old Lace to share with your friends, visit the Downloads page of our website and look under the Production Postcard heading. Exploring motifs of family loyalty, nature versus nurture, and whether we can ever truly break away from our family’s influence, Arsenic and Old Lace is a dark, screwball comedy declared one of the funniest plays ever by the New York Times. Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic and the most ostensibly normal of his clan, is forced to cover up for his sadistic kin while being torn between family loyalty and his desire to marry the woman he loves. The Brewster family is a once-elite American bloodline that has now descended into homicidal insanity.
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