Tom Foolery backstage @ HASHTAG MAYHEM!

And Mike Foolery, Kyle Foolery, Brooke Foolery, Mack Foolery, Bryan Foolery, Katelyn Foolery & Jeff Foolery.

 

 Kyle & Katelyn

 

 Brooke & Mack

 

 Jeff, Katelyn & Bryan

 

 Jeff & Mack

 

 Bryan & Jeff

 

Jeff, Katelyn & Mack

 

 

Bryan & Mike

Patrons! The Arts! HASHTAG MAYHEM!

Michelangelo

Leonardo Da Vinci

The guy with the chopped off ear.

We're not asking you to "give". We're asking you to "live"...through the arts!

 

Perhaps you know someone who is not a "creative person" - or whose creative abilities do not lie in theater. Here's an opportuntity for them - or for you - to align yourself with a creative endeavor. Artists need patrons. It's always been that way. Michelangelo. Da Vinci. Van Gogh. You get the picture. Click here and find out how you can support local theater through our Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign. Every contribution matters. Every contribution counts.

And don't worry. We're not asking for an arm or a leg. Or an ear.

- Jeffrey James Ircink

Producer/writer/director/actor for HASHTAG MAYHEM! 

Want your name in our program?

FYI! Tomorrow morning at 7:30 am (3/14) is the deadline for our HASHTAG MAYHEM! play programs. IF you want to contribute $25 + AND get your name IN the program, you have to do it by then. Simply click here.

HOLD ON...the fundraising campaign runs thru April 7 & you can STILL contribute - I'll simply "thank" BACKERS in my curtain speech who missed the program deadline.

EVERYONE HAS A DARK SIDE. WHAT'S YOURS?

Meet the cast(s) of HASHTAG MAYHEM!

 

 Mack Heath as "Laird" in BILLY BALFOOR WANTS AN APOLOGY

 

Zoe Schwartz as "Amy" in TWISTED NICE MIRAGE

 

 Greg Ryan as "Sean Kavanagh" in CONOR FRANCIS COMES HOME TO BALLYCULLEN and "Man" in PASS THE SALT, PLEASE

 

 

Brooke Maroldi as "Woman" in PASS THE SALT, PLEASE

 

Kathy Landry as "Kayley Kavanagh" in CONOR FRANCIS COMES HOME TO BALLYCULLEN

 

 Thom Cauley as "Conor Kavanagh" in CONOR FRANCIS COMES HOME TO BALLYCULLEN

 

 

Randall T. Anderson as "The Man" in JESUS PUSHED A GROCERY CART

 

Matthew Roth as "Billy" in BILLY BALFOOR WANTS AN APOLOGY and "Donal Meehan" in CONOR FRANCIS COMES HOME TO BALLYCULLEN

 

Jeffrey James Ircink as "Jeff" in CHOKING THE CHOAD IN BEL AIR

 

 Kyle Gallagher-Schmitz as"Jeff" in TWISTED NICE MIRAGE

 

 

Bryan Damske as "Bryan" in CHOKING THE CHOAD IN BEL AIR

 

 

Mike Loranger as "The Bum" in JESUS PUSHED A GROCERY CART

Producer notes for HASHTAG MAYHEM!

 

People always ask me, “where do you get your play ideas – because that’s some messed up shit”. It’s my contention that everyone has a dark side. It’s human nature. Good. Evil. On one end of the spectrum you’ve got Grammy who yells, “Dammit”, when she loses at sheepshead and at the other end you have a man in prison for murder. And everything in the middle. Fortunately, most of us keep our “dark” sides in check. Some do not. The characters in each of these plays are in the midst of a “dark” moment and they’re trying to work through it.

“Dark”, “mayhem”, “sordid” – whatever you want to call it, it’s probably best that you’re just an observer this evening.

Singer/musician Tom Waits quipped, “All the good in the world you can put in a thimble”. Perhaps. Even Walt Whitman, whose poetry typically took an optimistic view of life, commented in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” that, “It is not you alone who know what it is to be evil; I am he who knew what it was to be evil…”. But I see a silver lining in the six plays that make up HASHTAG MAYHEM!, and it’s this – if you don’t know the “dark”, how can you see the “light”?

Just watch your back…

– Jeffrey James Ircink

The directors of HASHTAG MAYHEM!



6 short, dark plays by Milwaukee playwright Jeffrey James Ircink. March 21-23, 28-30 & April 4-6 @ 8pm at The Alchemist Theatre in Bay View, Wisconsin. Brought to you by Babbling Bohemian Productions and The Horny Goat Hideaway in Milwaukee.

 

Tickets at the door OR online here. Indiegogo fundraising campaign here. "Hell Broke Luce" by Tom Waits here.

 

Everyone has a dark side. What's yours?

 

 

 Bo Johnson / TWISTED NICE MIRAGE

 

Gretchen Mahkorn / BILLY BALFOOR WANTS AN APOLOGY

 

 Jason Waszak / CONOR FRANCIS COMES HOME TO BALLYCULLEN

 

 Mary K. Ryan / JESUS PUSHED A GROCERY CART

 

Jeffrey James Ircink / PASS THE SALT, PLEASE & CHOKING THE CHOAD IN BEL AIR

‎6 of 6. CHOKING THE CHOAD IN BEL AIR.

 

A dissertation on seven years spent on an estate in Bel Air, CA with "the bitch".