What Weekly photographer Theresa Keil stopped by Stillpointe Theatre Initiative‘s production of Arsenic and Old Lace to capture some of the madness of the production. The show opened last weekend and is playing now though November 10th at Gallery 788 @ MAP located at 218 W. Saratoga Street.
Stillpointe Theatre Initiative is comprised entirely of Graduates from the Towson University Department of Theatre Arts. The show is a classic american comedy, written by Joseph Kesselring, but “like you’ve never seen it before!” Directed by Grace Anastasiadis, Stillpointe’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves.
His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts’ victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein, to conceal his identity.
The show runs November 2-3 & 8-10. All shows start at 8PM, and tickets are $20 each.Tickets may be purchased on our website: www.stillpointetheatre.com
