Dan Seavey: Confessions of A Great Lakes Pirate
June 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Making its Bayfield debut, Tom Kastle brings his one man play that looks both comically, and seriously, at the life of THE Great Lakes pirate. As with his literary contemporaries like Long John Silver, Dan Seavey is portrayed as a colorful character, a flawed character, a man who has done terrible things but, in the end, you are cheering for him and wishing him well.
Tom Kastle has traveled the world, collecting and performing maritime songs and stories and sailing tall ships on the Great Lakes. These days, he is doing theater ranging from Man of La Mancha to Shakespeare to God Help Us! with the legendary Ed Asner; plus film projects, and television, where he hosted a short documentary on the Bicentennial Battle of Lake Erie that was nominated for an Emmy Award.
His tall ship experience includes crewing and captaining vessels around the Great Lakes including Chicago classics like Charlotte Ann, Denis Sullivan, Friends Good Will, Windy, and Red Witch.
“What do you say about a guy who can command a tall ship and all her crew, whose songs can make an Irishman cry tears of pure Tullamore Dew?” — Bryan Bowers
