Arsenic and Old Lace
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Arsenic and Old Lace | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Mercury Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||
| First Date | 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | |||||||||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||||||||
| Description | The play is a farce revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy family and local police as he debates whether to go through with marrying the woman he loves. His family include two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering old men by poisoning them with arsenic, a brother who believes he's Teddy Roosevelt, and a criminally murderous brother who - due to botched plastic surgery to evade the authorities - now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary Genre |
Comedy
Farce |
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| Subjects |
Family
Madness Murder |
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| Text Nationality | United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||||||||
| Data Set | Theatre Aotearoa | |||||||||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 187467 | |||||||||||||||||||
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