 Event |
Arsenic and Old Lace
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| Venue |
Jetty Memorial Theatre, Coffs Harbour, NSW |
| First Date |
18 July 2008 |
| Opening Date |
18 July 2008 |
| Last Date |
27 July 2008 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Unknown |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
A madcap black farce by Joseph Kesselring revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with a honeymoon with the woman he loves and has recently agreed to marry.
His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine and "just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in th |
| Description Source |
Production Company |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Farce
Black Comedy
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
United States of America
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Web |
What's On Guide, 2008 |
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| Event Identifier |
76491 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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