Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre 2025: Irish culture and song

 On Thursday, 9th October 25 we watched a play about Ireland and Irish culture by the Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre, who is Vincent, Jack, and Cian.

They talk about Ireland and made funny sketches. I found the most exciting part was, when the actors talked goofily about Irish dialects. I hope they come back next year.

L. Eck, A. Olenberger, 6g

A day with Wilde Shamrock – When Ireland came to school

Last week something special happenend: The wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre performed for us! Every year they come to our school and perform a play in English. It was funny, exciting and more, they did a wonderful job. There were three actors: Jack, Cian and Vincent. The three actors told us a lot about Ireland with songs and funny scenes, the audience really enjoyed it. It was amazing to see how fast they changed their costumes. The funniest scene was when Vincent and Cian dressed up as old men and waited for Godot, the audience laughed a lot. I think they did an incredible job and it was worth it, the show was unforgettable, they were amazing.

S. Muddam, 6g

The funny play at school

on 9th October my class and I went to the assembly hall and watched a play with a huge audience of 6th and 7th graders. On stage there were three actors and they performed a funny and interesting play about Ireland. The first actor is Jack, who plays the guitar, and has a great voice. The second man was Cian, who had long hair and was cool. The last man’s name is Vincent and I think he was the best of all. 

The best moment was, when the sounded as if they were old man and stole apples and shoes. That was so funny und the audience laughed a lot. I was surprised that Vincent could speak German so well and they taught us some Gaelic. My feedback is that the project is great and it makes school feel much better. 

I hope they can come back to our school every year, I’m so excited about next year.

M. Delibas, 6g

Feedback on the performance of the Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre, class 7a

The theatre was really fun and creative and I really enjoyed it.

It was very funny and I want you to come back next year. 😊

The theatre was great because they were very funny.

I think the theatre was very funny and I like it to watch it.

It was very cool to see the presentation.

The show was very cool and funny. We could learn very much. The songs were nice too.

I liked the performance, but sometimes it was a bit boring. I think that they could be more interactive with the students.

The theatre was funny. But maybe they can include the students more the next time and maybe more songs.

collected by I. Schmidt

‘Passport’ by the Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre

On October, 9th the Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre visited our school to perform their extraordinary play ‘Passport’. Every year we get the pleasure to see their newest piece for educational purposes.

This year’s plot revolves around an Irish man travelling through different centuries by train. During his travels he gets to meet various people of different nationalities learning more about western history. In the course of the action he travels back in time, starting in a dystopian future, where nationalism and border controls are back stronger than ever, then to 1945 meeting an Italian partisan dreaming of a unified Europe who keeps on singing ‘Bella ciao’ in between. Finally he ends up in 1901 after the German unification, here he meets a German couple, called Tristan and Isolde who want to go to Berlin to perform ‘Cabaret’, which is according to their interpretation not a French play, but a German one.

Their passionate acting was really enjoyable, while the interesting historical references gave the play depth. However, if you lacked the context for those, it was hard to follow.

All in all, it was a great experience and a wonderful beginning to the school year. You can really look forward to seeing them on stage next year.

S. Trinh, C. Kästner, Y. Lim, J. Webert, Y. Meric, Q12

The Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre’s play this year was ‚Passport’ and it was performed by three actors to the 11th and 12th graders of our school.

It was about an Irish person that didn’t know much about history or European culture, who wanted to travel to Berlin, but ended up in the year 2050. He then travelled back in time, visiting important European dates like 1945 or 1937.

The vast majority of students enjoyed the play tremendously, the best scene was the one that was set in the beginning of the 19th century at the foot of the statue of Liberty, where one of the actors did an impression of Donald Trump and two refugees tried to enter the USA, but he would not let them making sneering comments on the New Colossus, that celebrates immigration. But if you didn’t understand the poem or didn’t have the historical background, then the jokes didn’t land, which made the play boring for me.

I still want to see next year’s play and hope that it will not require that much historical knowledge.

T. Wittholz, Q12

On Thursday, 9th October the Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre visited the AvH in Schweinfurt and performed their play ‘Passport’ for the students of the 11th and 12th grade to spread awareness of the consequences of nationalism by giving the audience an outlook into the future and by going back in time.

‘Passport’ is about an Irish Irish travelling musician who takes a train to Berlin in 2050, when the European Union does not exist any longer, which makes border controls much more difficult, i.e. you need more documents and identification.

When he falls asleep, he travels back in time to important stations like in 1945. Here the people he encounters dream of a Europe without nationalism, borders and war, but they still have mixed feelings about one another.

We liked the play, because it shows the importance of international unity, which became clearer and clearer, when they travelled back in time to 1901, when the people rooted for war to expand their country and become more powerful. In comparison to other Wilde Shamrock plays, we found ‘Passport’ rather convincing, because of its relevance to our current time of division.

M. Didis, H. Topf, Q12