Rockwall Community PlayhouseArsenic & Old Lace
RCP's Optional Favorite Theater brings the story of the eccentric Brewster family. In addition to the scheming old women who poison their victims with elderberry wine, the family includes Teddy, who suffers delusions that he is Theodore Roosevelt and that the Panama Canal runs through the cellar of his home. The locks he digs become convenient graves for the lonely men who fall victims to Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby’s machinations. When their nephew Mortimer discovers a body under the window seat of his aunts’ home, however, the elderly women ‘fess up’ to their deeds matter-of-factly and the events of the play become more absurd right up to the end.
