Joseph Kesselring (1902–1967)

This is a sublimely funny play - and even better when Mary Anne Canaday and I are doing it. We did this in Abbeville, SC - and, boy, is there a lot of silverware to fuss with. You know, you can act your arse off, but sometimes all you have to do is come out on stage in mourning and an audience cracks up.

One of my favorite plays of all time - funny, just a little creepy and still fun even many years after it was written.

This entertaining play about a very strange family is sure to entertain the more educated students in high school. Mortimer brings his newlywed to his aunts’ house in Brooklyn and that is where the strangeness begins. He is a critic who throughout these well-written humorous scenes, realizes his aunts are killing old men and burying them in the basement of their house by their nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. I would only recommend this play to students who have background show more information about the Panama Canal and the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt; they will find it much more humorous. show less

HYSTERICAL read through. I can't wait to perform in this. (An Officer Brophy gently gender-bent so as not to be distracting... I cannot pass for a Mr.)