Name: The Foe and the Fallen: Stories from The Greatest War
Start: 2025-11-11T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Barrymore Theatre

Mobilize the Poets Presents
THE FOE AND THE FALLEN
Stories from The Greatest War
Featuring
THE KISSERS
November 11, 2025, 7pm
$50 Gold Circle
$35 General Admission
Barrymore Theatre, Madison, WI
Based on the music of the award-winning album The Foe and the Fallen: Songs from The Greatest War (The Kissers, 2024), this multimedia “rock and roll history show” celebrates the lives of everyday Wisconsinites who lived during one of our nation’s most extraordinary times. They each did their bit in different ways. They served, they worked, they resisted; and did so with a passion and resilience that resonates still today.
This performance is a redux version of The Greatest War: World War One, Wisconsin, and Why It Still Matters which debuted in 2018 to a sold out audience at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin.
https://thekissers.bandcamp.com/.../the-foe-and-the...
“Utterly unique, musically and visually exciting, chilling and thought-provoking.”
-Gwendolyn Rice, Review of The Greatest War 2018 performance
https://www.gwendolynrice.com/.../a-great-show...
Support provided by
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Four Seasons Theatre
Antishadows Theatrical Design
Hinckley Productions
Brainstormer Studios
About Mobilize the Poets
Inspired by the resounding reception from our first production The Greatest War, a cross-discipline troupe of musicians, historians, and theatre artists have banded together to bring “rock and roll history shows” to audiences around Wisconsin and the Midwest. Dedicated to honoring the lives of everyday people who have lived through extraordinary times, Mobilize the Poets combines music, history, and storytelling together in powerful multimedia productions.
“Moving. Enlightening. Rocking. Important.”
-Andy Moore, Former Senior News Producer, PBS Wisconsin (about The Greatest War)
Ken Fitzsimmons
Founder, Performer, Creator
Ken Fitzsimmons has worked in music for 30 years, receiving a Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of jazz bass great Richard Davis, and an MBA from the Bolz Center of Arts Administration. He is the bassist in Milwaukee-based Little Blue Crunchy things and co-founder of the nationally touring Irish rock group The Kissers. He has taught music privately for three decades and is the Education Director at Madison Music Foundry. In 2018 he was the Artistic Director for the multimedia “rock and roll history show” The Greatest War: World War One, Wisconsin, and Why It Still Matters produced in partnership with Four Seasons Theatre and Antishadows Theatrical Design. www.kenfitzsimmons.com