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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Ron Cerabona

Classic black comedy is given a Canberra twist

Robert de Fries, left, Jack Shanahan and Kayla Ciceran in Arsenic and Old Lace. Picture: Ian Hart

Introducing your fiancee to your family is always a little tricky. But what if your family has skeletons not only in the closet, but - quite literally - buried in the basement?

That's the situation in which theatre critic Mortimer Brewster finds himself in Joseph Kesselring's 1941 black comedy Arsenic and Old Lace.

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