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Theatre "Arsenic and Old Lace" by La Cour des Mille Actes
Show · Thursday, November 5 · 20:30 · Bellevigne-en-Layon
Rue Albert Lebrun, Pôle culturel
LA COUR DES MILLE ACTES theatre company presents… Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring. The action is set in New York - Brooklyn. The Brewster sisters, two deliciously pious and charitable old maids, view murder as a philanthropic act: they poison lonely old gentlemen, in order, they say, to “relieve their earthly suffering.” Their nephew Teddy, a kindly fool who pretends to be the President of the United States, helps by burying the bodies in the cellar. Created on Broadway in 1941, the play was a triumph, entering the…
