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Theatre "Arsenic and Old Lace" by La Cour des Mille Actes
Show · Friday, November 6 · 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 charming, devout and charitable old maids, regard murder as a philanthropic act: they poison lonely elderly gentlemen, to, they claim, “shorten their suffering on earth.” Their nephew Teddy, a gentle fool who believes he is the President of the United States, helps by burying the bodies in the basement. First staged on Broadway in 1941, the play was a triumph, entering into the…
