Written by Joseph Kesselring, it is not only a classic comedy - it is a superb black comedy, described as “frenzied, hilarious and madcap”.
A drama critic learns on the day of his engagement that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. The aunts, Abby and Martha, have a very different view of life where charity certainly begins at home, but not in the conventional sense. Watching their nephew Mortimer struggle with his aunts‘ version of reality is, if you‘ll pardon the pun, killingly funny. His brother, Jonathan - of dubious mental state with a string of random murders to his name - and his sidekick, the dipsomaniac Dr Einstein, are treated as little more than a pair of wayward schoolboys. Add to the mix brother Teddy, who thinks he‘s President Teddy Roosevelt, a bemused fiancée and her father, four police officers (three of whom are not really that bright), a potential lodger and victim of the murderous spinsters, and the superintendent of a sanatorium, and this great comedy is the result.
directed by Alan Wiseman, the show runs from 11th to 15th March - nightly at 8pm