Acting Irish International Theatre Festival
Rochester Community Players and The Irish Players of Rochester are pleased to welcome the 2017 Acting Irish International Theatre Festival to Rochester on May 9–14. The performances will be presented at the Fielding Stage at the Geva Theatre Center.
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Box Office
Individual tickets are $20 each, available available online.
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Performance Schedule
Tuesday, May 9 at 8pm
Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel
Presented by the Irish Players of Rochester, a program of the Rochester Community Players: Brian Friel’s early masterpiece tells of a young man in rural Ireland the eve of emigrating to America; his dreams of a new life, his regrets for those being left behind, his innermost hopes and fears dramatically presented as a private dialogue with himself.
Wednesday, May 10 at 8pm
Monged by Garry Duggan
Presented by the Tara Players, Winnipeg: A comic story of the three most unlikely friends who navigate Dublin’s nightlife over one weekend – avoiding angry girlfriends, angry parents and a psychotic drug dealer while trying to offload a new drug called “Flippers” in order to settle a debt.
Thursday, May 11 at 8pm
For Better, For Worse by Jimmy Keary
Presented by the Gaelic Park Players, Chicago: Things are not going well for one married couple – in and out of the bedroom, helped not at all by an interfering line-in mother-in- law and a recently widowed aunt who comes to stay for a few days.
Friday, May 12 at 2pm
Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley
Presented by the Irish American Theater Company, Cincinnati: In this romantic comedy set in rural Ireland, Anthony and Rosemary are lovelorn farmers who need to overcome a bitter land feud, familial rivalries and their own romantic fears to find happiness.
Friday, May 12 at 8pm
Little Gem by Elaine Murphy
Presented by Milwaukee Irish Arts: Three generations of Irish women greet life’s travails with strength, humor and the occasional vodka and Diet Coke or night of abandon on the salsa dance floor.
Saturday, May 13 at 2pm
Dirty Dusting by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood
Presented by Irish Theatre of Florida, Del Ray Beach: When three cleaners, Olive, Elsie and Peggy, are threatened with redundancy they feel that their lives are coming to an end until a chance wrong number gives them a new business start-up idea – why not run a telephone sex line?
Saturday, May 13 at 8PM
The Weir by Conor McPherson
Presented by Liffey Players Drama Society, Calgary: In a remote country pub in Ireland, a newcomer is spellbound by an evening of local ghostly stories; but what starts out as blarney soon turns dark as the tales drift into the realm of the supernatural.