The play is a farcical black comedy 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 the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts’ victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played by Karloff).

Performed at:
Gauntlett Community Center
West Chester Pike and Media Line Rd
Newtown Square, PA 19073
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Dates:

auditions: February 01, 2010 7:30 PM

February 02, 2010 7:30 PM

performance: May 07, 2010 8:00 PM

May 08, 2010 8:00 PM

May 14, 2010 8:00 PM

May 15, 2010 8:00 PM

May 16, 2010 2:00 PM

May 21, 2010 8:00 PM

May 22, 2010 8:00 PM

Audition information:
Director Maureen Carmen needs a large cast for this production in May of 2010Auditions will be cold readings from the script.

* 2 F (50-70)
* 1F (30+)
* 2M (35-50)
* 8M (20-50)

If you have any questions, please call the theater at 610-353-9181 and leave a message or e-mail us at mnplayers1@yahoo.com.