IRELAND'S SHAKESPEARE

A comedy of forgery, folly, and fancy… all in two acts! Poets Corner presents two readings of Pittsburgh playwright, Michael McGovern’s, Ireland’s Shakespeare, a farce about the forgeries of the Bard. The play, directed by Poets Corner founder, Yvonne Hudson, will be read in the restored Victorian Chapel, Calvary United Methodist Church, Allegheny West. brief tour of the restored sanctuary and Tiffany windows will be given an hour prior to curtain. Admission is $5 and free for seniors and students with ID.

When a mysterious, but charming, young stranger named William Henry Ireland shows up at Sir Charles Bacon’s home claiming to have discovered lost papers from Shakespeare, himself, a series of absurdities occur in the city of London. Shakespearean experts are taken through a ridiculous journey of deceit, a beautiful love story goes awry, a housemaid may be more than what she seems to be, and a brilliant, yet deranged, actor gets his first taste of notoriety. Could these lost letters and plays from The Bard actually be real? When a chemist examines them for their authenticity? Scandal!