Arsenic, Old Lace and Hilarity from Stage Right Players Posted on September 12, 2013 The cast of ARSENIC & OLD LACE PHOTO: Courtesy of Stage Right Players Conroe_Courier_9-12-13 Want to have some fun? Want to roll in the aisles with laughter? Stage Right Players may have the answer for you at the Crighton Theatre with their uproarious current production of Joseph Kesselring’s comedy romp, Arsenic and Old Lace. Now mind you, I said may have the answer. You must first bring with you a certain set of audience skills, foremost among them the ability to suspend your disbelief of the frantically nutty and highly improbable plot. If you can pass that test, a great deal of fun lies in store for you, and this is a cast that can really deliver the laughs in this classic comedy under the skillful direction of Brenda Storseth. If you can forgive the pun, allow me to summarize the plot in a NUT-shell. Mortimer Brewster (Michael Blake Oldham) is a sometimes-reluctant theatre critic in love with the very lovely Elaine Harper (Cassandra Roschen), who happens to be the daughter of the pleasantly pious Reverend Dr. Harper (Greg Kelly). The couples’s engagement to be married brings with it a new supply of laughs, and Roschen skillfully adds a pleasant twist of exasperation as perhaps the only really sane character in the play. The action plays out in the beautiful Victorian home of Mortimer’s two amusingly eccentric aunts, Abby (Leona Hoegsberg) and Martha (Carolyn Corsano Wong). Mr. Oldham, meanwhile, has possibly the greatest acting challenge conveying Mortimer’s reactions as he begins to discover that his outwardly sweet aunties are, in fact, mass murderers. The People's Critic David Dow Bentley III
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Arsenic, Old Lace and Hilarity from Stage Right PlayersPosted on September 12, 2013
The cast of ARSENIC & OLD LACE
PHOTO: Courtesy of Stage Right Players
Conroe_Courier_9-12-13
Want to have some fun? Want to roll in the aisles with laughter? Stage Right Players may have the answer for
you at the Crighton Theatre with their uproarious current production of Joseph Kesselring’s comedy romp,
Arsenic and Old Lace. Now mind you, I said may have the answer. You must first bring with you a certain
set of audience skills, foremost among them the ability to suspend your disbelief of the frantically nutty and
highly improbable plot. If you can pass that test, a great deal of fun lies in store for you, and this is a cast that
can really deliver the laughs in this classic comedy under the skillful direction of Brenda Storseth.
If you can forgive the pun, allow me to summarize the plot in a NUT-shell. Mortimer Brewster (Michael Blake
Oldham) is a sometimes-reluctant theatre critic in love with the very lovely Elaine Harper (Cassandra
Roschen), who happens to be the daughter of the pleasantly pious Reverend Dr. Harper (Greg Kelly). The
couples’s engagement to be married brings with it a new supply of laughs, and Roschen skillfully adds a
pleasant twist of exasperation as perhaps the only really sane character in the play. The action plays out in the
beautiful Victorian home of Mortimer’s two amusingly eccentric aunts, Abby (Leona Hoegsberg) and Martha
(Carolyn Corsano Wong). Mr. Oldham, meanwhile, has possibly the greatest acting challenge conveying
Mortimer’s reactions as he begins to discover that his outwardly sweet aunties are, in fact, mass murderers.