Orem High School is presenting Joseph Kesserling's murderously hilarious play "Arsenic and Old Lace," which highlights the adventures of two spin-sterly aunts, for six performances beginning Monday, April 6.
Neil Barth is directing the play. Martha Udall and Heather Riggs play Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha, respectively. The two aunts, seemingly harmless old ladies, have a particularly nasty habit of killing lonely gentleman callers with their tasty and toxic concoction of elderberry wine.Adding to the insanity is their nephew, Teddy Brewster, played by Randy Davis, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt and keeps checking on the "locks" of the Panama Canal in the Brewster basement. Also thrown in to the mixture are two other unusual brothers, Mortimer and Jonathan Brewster, portrayed by Sean Curtis and Matt Stumphy.
Barth said the play's "timeless quality" is one of the reasons he selected it for the Orem High production.
"Arsenic and Old Lace" will run April 6-11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Orem High School Auditorium, 175 S. 400 East. Tickets are $1 for Orem High students, $1.50 for other students and $2 for general admission seats and will be available at the door.