Arsenic and Old Lace: Saturday Night Theatre Companion
There are some plays that radio has to reinvent.
And there are others that seem almost to have been waiting for radio all along.
Arsenic and Old Lace is one of those.
A quiet house in Brooklyn.
Two charming elderly sisters.
A nephew who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt.
Another nephew who is a theatre critic.
And, somewhere in the house, a body.
Actually, quite a few bodies.
Tonight on the Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we return to Joseph Kesselring’s wonderfully improbable world of murder, manners, madness—and elderberry wine.
And this time, we have an unusual opportunity.
Because on…
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