Iranian director plans to stage Broadway’s “Arsenic and Old Lace” in Tehran

TEHRAN,June 20(MNA) – The Iranian director Hossein Parsaii plans to stage the Broadway classic comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace” at Tehran’s Iranhshahr Theater Complex this summer. The play will be rewritten by Amir-Reza Kuhestani, and renowned scriptwriter and director Peyman Qasemkhani will be the assistant director for the performance of the play, Parsaii told the Persian service of MNA. “The name of the play will be changed for the performances,” he added. Bahareh Rahnama, Bijan Banfshekhah, Pejman Jamshidi, Farnaz Rahnama, Fahimeh Amnzadeh, Sepand Amir-Soleymani, Ramin Sayyardashti and Ardeshir Kazemi will star in the play, he announced. Written by the American playwright Joseph Kesselring in 1939, it went on stage on Broadway from June 26, 1986, to January 3, 1987, at the 46th Street Theatre in New York. The play is about a drama critic who must deal with his eccentric family, including two sweet aunts who cheerfully poison the elderly men who have recently promised to marry the woman he loves.