Irish Fest is the largest Irish festival in the country. This year Milwaukee Irish Arts is producing all theater performances at The Theatre Pavilion. Irish Fest is the only local ethnic festival that presents theater.  Your ticket to Irish Fest includes free entry to The Theatre Pavilion. Here are the entertaining shows to be presented this year Friday, August 16 through Sunday August 18

Green & Blue

Author: Laurance McKeown

Irish Fest is thrilled to welcome Belfast’s legendary Kabosh Theatre on the U.S tour of this award-winning one-act play. Laced with humor, insight, and touching moments, the play portrays an authentic and honest account of life on the Irish border during the height of the conflict as told through the stories of two police officers from either side of the Irish divide. Kabosh will host a discussion of the play and the current situation in Northern Ireland after each performance.

Cast and Crew

Eddie O'Halloran – James Doran
David McCabe – Vincent Higgins
Director – Paula McFetridge
Technical Stage Manager – Stephen Quinn

That’s My Story

Author: Eamonn O’Neill

Eamonn O’Neill, long-standing member of Milwaukee Irish Arts since 1983 and resident shanachie (story teller), recounts the experience of emigration to America in the early 1900s.

Cast

Shanachie– Eamonn O'Neill

Casey at the Bat and Casey Bats Again

Author: Ernest Thayer and Grantland Rice

Hear this classic poem about baseball followed by cleverly devised squeal. It is more Irish than you might imagine.

Cast

Casey – Kevin Callahan
Director – Amy Callahan

The Workhouse Ward

Author: Lady Gregory

Two aging men, ailing in the sick ward of the Workhouse (Ireland’s version of the Poorhouse), are intent on outdoing each other with hilarious insults that range from life in Ireland to mythical creatures in this comedy by Lady Gregory, one of Ireland’s most famous theatrical figures from the early 1900s.

Cast

Michael Mishkell – Bo Johnson*
Michael McInerney – Chris Fleiller* 
Honor Donohue - Leslie Fitzwater
Director – James J Gallagher

* Members of Actors Equity

Wild Sky

Author: Deirdre Kinahan

This new play by Deirdre Kinahan tells the heartwarming story of
two young people caught up in the events around the 1916 Easter
Rising in Ireland. The tale is told with language that is deeply
poetic, searingly personal, and at times nothing less than sublime.

Cast

Josie Dunne – Chloe Attala
Tom Farrell – Cole Conrad
Director – Caroline Norton
Stage Manager – Wyatt Meyer
Stage Manager – Sydonia Lucchesi

Schedule of performances:

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Milwaukee Irish Fest Information:

Main Website: https://irishfest.com/Milwaukee-Irish-Fest

For ticket information to Irish Fest go here:  https://irishfest.com/tickets.htm