The Oswego Players and Beyond the Rainbow Productions are pleased to announce auditions for their October production Joseph Kesselring’s “Arsenic and Old Lace.” This classic black comedy farce will be directed by Kevin Colvin.
The auditions will be a cold read from the script held at the Francis Marion Brown theatre in Oswego on Monday, September 9th and Tuesday, September 10th from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. There are parts for 3 women, 6 men, and 5 that could be either gender, ages ranging from twenty to Sixty.
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police—not to mention Mortimer’s own hesitancy about marriage—it’ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family
Show dates for “Arsenic and Old Lace” are October 25th, 26th, 27th and November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. “Arsenic and Old Lace” is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection (www.dramastists.com)