Saturday, February 24, 2018 7:30 PM
Crouse, and turned Arsenic and Old Lace into a
farcical black comedy. Our tale follows the misadventures of Mortimer
Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy family which
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. There is one brother
who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt, and another, more nefarious
brother, who has received plastic surgery to conceal his identity, and
now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff. (That role was
originally played on Broadway by Karloff, himself.) Put them all
together in one house, and hijinks ensue!
Springhouse Theatre is located on the campus of Springhouse Worship
& Arts Center at 14119 Old Nashville Highway, Smyrna, TN. Tickets
are available at www.ticketsnashville.com. For more information contact
Springhouse Theatre Company at (615) 852-8499, or visit us online at www.Springhousetheatre.com.