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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2010 Back by popular demand!Live Theater at the East Haddam Historical Society Museum and Gillette Castle State Park Saturday and Sunday afternoons June 19 through July 31 2010 1:00pm outdoors at the park, 67 River Rd Free. Bring a blanket or chair if you’d like 2:00pm indoors AC at the Historical Society Museum 264 Town Street Free with $5 admission to museum This is the second summer season for the East Haddam Stage Company’s 30-minute production of William Gillette’s 1890 Victorian Drawing Room Comedy, All the Comforts of Home. Adapted and directed by EHSCO’s Artistic Director Kandie Carle. All the Comforts of Home is a fast paced comedy set in the London home of well-to-do banker, Mr. Pettibone, played by Westbrook actor Don Shirer. The merriment begins when he intercepts a letter he thinks implicates his wife, Rosabelle, in a trist. She is played by Farmington actress Virginia Wolf. Hilarious complications revolve around mistaken identities, miss- communication and one ne’er-do-well nephew, Alfred Hastings, played by Hartford actor Kenneth Lundquist Jr. Love triangles, squares and circles ensue with the addition of New Britain actress Rayah Martin in not one or two, but THREE roles as fickle Alfred’s love interest. Throw in the mysterious Mr. Smythe and you have a raucous good time! Who gets whom in the end? And just where does Mr. Bender stand with Miss Fifi Oritanski? Come join in the fun and see for yourself! This production is presented by the East Haddam Historical Society Museum with funding support from the CT Humanities Council For more information, please visit www.EHSCO.org or call 860-873-3521
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