ARSEN UND SPITZENHÄUBCHEN

In the organizer's words:

by Joseph Kesselring

Abby and Martha Brewster like to entertain guests, preferably lonely elderly gentlemen. Their specialty: delicious elderberry wine - with a tasty hint of arsenic and cyanide. Because the two friendly sisters decide that the existence of these gentlemen is no longer worth living, they send them straight to the afterlife without further consultation. Their insane nephew, who thinks he is the President of the USA, is responsible for disposing of the bodies in the cellar. When her other nephew, the smart theater critic Mortimer, stumbles across the murder victims by chance, he is stunned - and at the same time wants to somehow ensure that his beloved aunts don't end up in prison. But then his brother Jonathan turns up - a wanted mass murderer! And it becomes clear that the abyss that gapes beneath this idyllic scene has unexpected dimensions.

The famous murder grotesque is a masterpiece of black humor about the banality of domestic evil. Because horror is lurking next door.