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Theatre "Arsenic and Old Lace" by La Cour des Mille Actes
Show · Saturday, November 7 · 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 delightful pious and charitable old maids, consider murder a philanthropic act: they poison very lonely old gentlemen to, they say, “shorten their suffering on earth”… Their nephew Teddy, a mild-mannered lunatic who takes himself for 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 into the…
