Blue Hill, Maine - The public is invited to participate in the Blue Hill Public Library monthly Play Reading Group on Wednesday, May 16th from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at the Library. The play selected for this month is Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace (1949).
Arsenic and Old Lace is a farcical comedy about a drama critic, Mortimer Brewster, whose 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 poison; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery to conceal his identity.
The group welcomes inexperienced and experienced readers alike. The only criteria are the love of plays and the joy of reading them aloud among like-minded theater fans. For further information, contact the Blue Hill Library at 374-5515 or Michael Donahue at 374-5248 (or Donahue.mg@gmail.com).
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