ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

Written by Joseph Kesselring
Published by Dramatist Play Service, Inc.
Directed by Larry Blake
Produced by and Catherine Stip

Auditions:      
Sunday, January 4 @ 1pm
Monday, January 5 @ 7pm

Where:
Maddy Room at the H. B. Central Library
7111 Talbert Ave
Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Performance Dates: February 27 – March 20^, 2009

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Major Characters:

MORTIMER BREWSTER (35-50)  Loveable.  Good comic timing.  Multiple transformations required.

ABBY BREWSTER (45-65) Innocent, loveable, pudgy.  Mortimer’s aunt.  Doesn’t have a clue as to the wrong she’s done.

MARTHA BREWSTER (45-60) Same as Abby.  The two are bookends of innocence.

JONATHAN BREWSTER (35-50)  Abby and Martha’s other nephew.  Mortimer’s brother.  Sinister-like in comical way.  Tall.  Menacing.  Should remind people of Boris Karloff, if possible.

DR. EINSTEIN  (35-50)  German accent, possibly.  Alcoholically challenged.  Character actor.

ELAINE HARPER  (35-45)  Mortimer’s love interest.  Innocent.

TEDDY BREWSTER  (45-60)  Should have thick moustache, or willingness to wear fake one.  Teddy believes himself to be the former President, Theodore Roosevelt.  One-dimensional role.

Minor Characters:

REV. DR. HARPER (45-60)
OFFICER BROPHY (30-60)
OFFICER KLEIN (30-60)
MR. GIBBS (45-60)
OFFICER O’HARA (45-60)
LIEUTENANT ROONEY (45-60)
MR. WITHERSPOON (55-65)