Chopticon High School’s Bravehouse Productions will present Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace on Thursday, November 15; Friday, November 16; and Saturday, November 17; in the Chopticon High School Auditorium. All shows will begin at 6:00 pm, with doors opening at 5:30 pm. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 with a student ID.
Arsenic and Old Lace is the infamous tale of two elderly sisters (Abby and Martha Brewster) who are well-known in their 1940’s Brooklyn community for their acts of kindness and charity. Unfortunately, this “charity” also includes poisoning their lodging guests; lonely old men with no family. The Brewster sisters are assisted by a nephew who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy tends to the dead by burying them in basement which he has fashioned to look like the Panama Canal. Things get even more chaotic when nephew Mortimer discovers a body and a long lost nephew Jonathan returns to the Brewster residence. Trying to protect them from is sinister brother and the fate of prison, Mortimer fashions a plan to move the sisters and Teddy to Happy Dale, a mental institution. Mortimer happily departs with fiancée Elaine, but before they leave for Happy Dale, the sisters receive one last, very special visitor…
Chopticon High School’s Theatre premiered as Bravehouse Productions in 2009 with the fall play Twelve Angry Jurors. Since, Bravehouse Productions has produced several shows including Pippin, Romeo and Juliet, The Music Man, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap and most recently, CSI: Neverland. In April, Bravehouse Productions will be presenting Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. For more information about Bravehouse Productions, please contact Chopticon’s Theatre Director, Ms. Tracie Pisarcik, at 301-475-0215 x153 or visit www.ChopticonTheatre.org.
