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Theatre “Arsenic and Old Lace” by La Cour des Mille Actes
Show · Friday, November 13 · 20:30 · Bellevigne-en-Layon
Rue Albert Lebrun, Pôle culturel
LA COUR DES MILLE ACTES Theatre company of Martigné-Briand presents… Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring. The action takes place in New York - Brooklyn The Brewster sisters, two delightful pious and charitable old ladies, consider murder a philanthropic deed: they poison lonely old gentlemen, to, they say, “shorten their suffering on earth”… Their nephew Teddy, a gentle fool who pretends to be the President of the United States, helps them by burying the corpses in the basement. First performed on Broadway in 1941, the play was a triumph, entering into the…
