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Arsenic and Old Lace, a well written Shakespearian comedy was the script chosen for this years Fall Play. All of the play takes place in September, 1941 in the Brooklyn, New York home of Abby and Martha Brewster. The Brewster sisters are crazy lunatics that rent out the extra room in the household. Also living in the house is Mortimer Brewster, a nephew of the sisters. He is madly in love with a neighbor named Elaine Harper. There is one slight problem, Mortimer is afraid to marry Elaine because he doesn’t want to pass the craziness in the Brewster family along. Still with the one extra room, they don’t rent the room out to any normal person, they enjoy renting the room o