Watergate Productions are back with a bang with their summer show Arsenic and Old Lace, which will run at the Watergate Theatre next week.
If dark humour is your thing and you’re not adverse to the odd dead body then this could just be right up your street!
Arsenic and Old Lace is an entertaining play which deals with serious issues such as murder, old age and morality in a light-hearted and simplistic manner, whilst still offering the audience a strong moral message from the performance.
The story: Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out about his aunts' hobby which involves killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar.
The year is 1941. The location is a small house next to a cemetery in Brooklyn. In this house live the two kind, thoughtful, sweet old ladies, Martha and Abby Brewster who have developed this very bad habit. It appears that they murder the lonely old men and consider doing it a charity. They then leave it to their bugle-blowing nephew, Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt ) to take them to the Panama Canal (the cellar ) and bury them.
So it would appear that insanity runs in this family and Mortimer Brewster now has the task of either hiding this little-known fact from his new bride or informing the sweet nuptial of the dark secret.
This cast has taken to the grim plot with gusto and is only waiting for a desiring audience to perform this quirky tale before.
The Cast includes Colette Browne, Tom O Loughlin, Andrew Small, Niall Fitzpatrick, Declan Taylor, Claire Gibbs, Orna Ward, Michael Hayes, Ger Cody, Brendan Corcoran, Joe Murray, Donal O Brien, Paddy Behan and Richard Holland.
A special price is available on opening night, where all tickets are €10 and proceeds go to the street children of Calcutta.
The show opens on Tuesday and promises to be a great night’s entertainment. It continues until Saturday July 24. Booking is recommended in order to avoid disappointment on 056 7761674. Normal ticket prices are €15 / €12.50. The show starts at 8pm.
