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by Joseph Kesselring
directed by Martin Leafe
Theatre critic Mortimer Brewster plans to get engaged to his sweetheart Elaine. But he discovers his two charming elderly aunts have taken up a gruesome hobby: they “charitably” murder lonely old men by giving them elderberry wine laced with arsenic! Meanwhile, his dotty brother Teddy, who thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt, is digging the Panama Canal in the basement – a handy place to bury the bodies. Matters are made worse by the unwelcome return of his serial-killer brother Jonathan, with his drunk plastic surgeon, a new face, and a corpse in tow. How can Mortimer stop their murderous antics without giving things away? And how can he marry Elaine when insanity seems to run in his homicidal family? Arsenic and Old Lace was a smash hit when it opened in New York and became an all-time classic film. Join us for a rollicking black farce.
Cast
| actor/actress |
part |
| Sonia Senfft von Pilsach |
Martha |
| Ursula Schmidt |
Abby |
| Eddie Gray |
Mortimer |
| Maximilian Josef Duchow |
Jonathan |
| Ute Kreitz |
Elaine |
| Thomas Thornton |
Dr. Einstein |
| Tom Ivison |
O' Hara |
| Mat Nichol |
Teddy |
| Roger Graves |
Brophy |
| Jeff Caster |
Rev. Dr. Harper/ Rooney |
| Peter Alexander |
Mr. Witherspoon |
| Piet Hansen |
Mr.Gibbs |
Performances
11 - 14 and 18 - 21 May 2011
Wednesdays to Saturdays at 7.30 pm, plus a matinee performance on Saturday 14 May at 3.30 pm
Tickets
Prices from EUR 10 to EUR 15.
Premiere Wednesday 11 May - all tickets EUR 10.
Student and group discounts available.
For more information about tickets and booking, see tickets.
Venue
Theater an der Marschnerstraße,
Marschnerstr. 46, 22081 Hamburg
How to get there?
Study guide
We are not formally providing an extensive study guide for this play, but we do provide a synopsis of the play in German in the programme (available at the theatre or on request from us), and we have also designed some study questions for higher-level students to prepare for the play. You can adapt these for your own levels:
 Arsenic questions
In addition we can recommend an excellent pdf study guide and synopsis by The Arts Club Theatre Company:
http://www.artsclub.com/youth/pdfs/0203guides/Arsenic.pdf
You can also find an advanced study guide by Holly Beard on the College of Fine Arts and Communications website at Brigham Young University:
http://cfac-old.byu.edu/fileadmin/tma/user_files/Production_History/Study_Guides-PH/ArsenicSG.pdf
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