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Friday 09.12.2008
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"Arsenic and Old Lace" will be playing at the Campus Theater Sept. 12 to 21. Tickets are $17 for adults and $10 for students.
By Addley Fannin
Senior Staff Writer
Denton Community Theatre will
debut its new production of Joseph
Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace"
tonight at the Campus Theater on the
Denton Square.
This is not the first time that
"Arsenic and Old Lace" has been
produced by the theater group, as
the theater has a long history with
the play
"This play has been done in what
is essentially Denton Community
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Theatre at least three times," director
Betty Kay Seibt said. "Originally,
about 35 years ago, they did it when
the theater was still over the old fire-
house, then again in the '80s. It's kind
of looked at as one of those modern
classics of the theater."
The story in "Arsenic and Old Lace"
focuses on three somewhat odd
brothers and their two aunts living
in Brooklyn in the early 1940s.
"The three nephews are very
wacky," Seibt said. "The oldest
brother is a homicidal maniac, the
middle brother thinks he's Theodore
Roosevelt and the youngest is the
straight man in the whole play, a
theater critic in New York City, and
he's trying to overcome being born
in Brooklyn."
But none of the brothers realize
exactly what their aunts are up to
behind the scenes.
"Their aunts are taking in old men,
and if they think that they have no
home or are lonely, they poison them
and give them peace," Seibt said.
"They're not killing them for their
pensions or anything; they just feel
sorry for them so they poison them
with elderberry wine spiked with
arsenic and cyanide."
The dark comedy comes to a head
over the course of one night, when
everything that has been going on is
exposed and a series of wacky situa-
tions ensures.
"It's a classic comedy," said Rebecca
Parker, who plays one of the aunts. It's
one of those that I think is timeless;
it fits all generations. "It is certainly
not offensive to anyone; I think it
would be something that is multi-
generational."
Unlike some other shows, where
there may be many set changes
and different locations throughout
the show, "Arsenic and Old Lace" is
almost entirely contained within one
set location.
"The whole play has a 'locked
room' element of all happening in
one place over one night," Seibt said.
"It all starts at about sundown on one
evening and runs to about 8 o'clock
the next morning. There are people
who come and go, but the action of
the play is entirely in this one room
of the house."
Many of the cast members have
participated in Denton Community
Theatre plays before, and they empha-
size the excitement that working with
the group as brought them.
"My husband and I moved here
five years ago, and we were excited
to see that they had a community
theater," Parker said. "So when we
came to the first play, we signed up
to be season members. Since I didn't
know anyone in Denton, I thought it
might be a good way to meet other
women, so I came out. It's a great way
to meet people."
Most of all, cast members said the
funny and interesting elements of the
play reflect the experiences they had
behind the scenes.
"It's been an awful lot of fun." Seibt
said. "I've had wonderful, wonderful
people to work with, the staff here is
wonderful, it makes it so easy They're
all very talented."
"Arsenic and Old Lace" will run
September 12, 13, 19 and 20 at 7:30
p.m. and on September 14 and 21 at 2
p.m. Tickets are $10 for students and
$17 for regular adults.
For more information, go to denton-
communitytheatre.com.
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