It was a big weekend for the Dewdney Players, as its production of Arsenic and Old Lace hit the stage for the first time.

The play is about writer and notorious marriage detractor Mortimer Brewster, who falls for girl-next-door Elaine Harper, tying the knot on Halloween. When the newlyweds return to their family homes to deliver the news, Brewster finds a corpse hidden in a window seat. With his eccentric aunts, disturbed uncle, and homicidal brother, he starts to realize that his family is even crazier than he thought.

Nicola Payton, President of the Dewdney Players, says spectators are guaranteed a good laugh.

"The play has been described as a black comedy, but it's apparently too funny to be a black comedy, It's a funny drama."

The Dewdney Players have been working on Arsenic and Old Lace since late summer, Payton says there are tons of people involved in the production.

"There's always so many people involved in the production, there are 12 actors and then probably double that involved in the set design, making the set, doing the costumes, things like that."

Arsenic and Old Lace is a three act play, with two short intermissions, totalling about 3 hours.

There is still two weeks left to see the newest from the Dewdney Players, Arsenic and Old Lace will be presented at the Rotary Performing Arts Centre Nov. 16, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m.

The production also has two matinee shows, Nov. 18, and 25 at 2:00 p.m.

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