Troupe Performs Tennessee Williams Plays In Kent Lakes

KENT LAKES, N.Y. – The Lake Carmel Arts Center's Arts on the Lake series continues with “Three by Tennessee” by the Blue Horse Repertory Company on Saturday.

Lora Lee Ecobelli, one of the founders of the Blue Horse Repertory Company, will bring the group to the Lake Carmel Arts Center in Kent Lakes.
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Jim Barg

03/04/2015 1:00 p.m.

The Blue Horse Repertory Company is a local institution, having been founded by Nichols Street residents Leo Burmester and Lora Lee Ecobelli. Ecobelli, along with Peggity Price, has continued to run the company since Burmester's death in 2007 and moving upstate.

“Three by Tennessee” is a reading of three Tennessee Williams plays. Williams' early conception of “A Streetcar Named Desire” lead character Blanche DuBois is part of “Portrait of a Madonna,” while the other two plays are “The Strangest Kind of Romance” and “The Frosted Glass Coffin.” Williams considered "Coffin" to be one of his better short plays.

The rest of the cast includes company members James Occhino, Nancy Rothman, Roger Simon, and James Shearwood, along with Price and Ecobelli.

Musicians Tim Pitt and Patrick Cummings will add live music authentic to the New Orleans of Williams’s plays.

Tickets are $15, with a $3 discount for Arts on the Lake members.

The Lake Carmel Arts Center is at 640 Route 52 in Kent Lakes.

To purchase tickets, go online to www.artsonthelake.org or call 845-228-2685.

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