Mortimer Brewster (Adam Shanaman ’22, right) reassures his brother, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt (Eric Lehman ’22), that “the country is squarely behind you.”

The scene is from a practice of Bluffton University’s fall play “Arsenic and Old Lace.”

The 1940s dark comedy centers around Brewster, whose charming and charitable aunts have an unusual ministry – helping lonely boarders to their heavenly rest by serving poisoned elderberry wine. 

Performances of “Arsenic and Old Lace” will take place at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31-Nov. 2 and 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 3 in Bluffton University’s Ramseyer Auditorium.

Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for senior citizens, Bluffton University faculty and staff, and non-Bluffton University students.

Bluffton University students are able to see the play for free. Tickets are available online at tickets.bluffton.edu or by calling the box office at 419-358-3239.