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Tim Mooney will bring his one-hour, high energy version of one of Shakespeare\u2019s most popular plays to the stage at Tusculum College with the presentation of \u201cBreakneck Hamlet\u201d at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, in the Behan Arena Theatre on campus.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tim Mooney will bring his one-hour, high energy version of Hamlet to the stage Tuesday, Sept. 19, at Tusculum College.<\/p>\n

Mooney\u2019s \u201cBreakneck Hamlet\u201d will be presented at 7 p.m. in the Behan Arena Theatre on the lower level (side entrance) of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building on the Tusculum campus. The performance is part of the 2017-18 Acts, Arts, Academia performance and lecture series, coordinated by Tusculum Arts Outreach.<\/p>\n

Mooney has \u201crecklessly sliced\u201d his \u201cBreakneck Hamlet\u201d from Shakespeare\u2019s original, cutting a four-hour play to a single hour with a single actor. This \u201cbreakneck\u201d performance reveals Hamlet as a thrilling chameleon, with an immense intellectual capacity and a hilarious, wicked sense of humor. Rather than the melancholy Dane of more traditional interpretations of the play, Mooney\u2019s Hamlet is a man of action with barely a second-long pause throughout.<\/p>\n

The Chicago-based actor is a veteran of over 50 fringe festivals and 15 years of touring colleges and high schools across the US with popular one-man shows. <\/em>\u201cBreakneck Hamlet\u201d is Mooney\u2019s eighth (and he describes as best) one-man play, following, \u201cMoliere than Thou,\u201d \u201cLot o\u2019 Shakespeare\u201d (one monologue from each of Shakespeare\u2019s plays), and \u201cThe Greatest Speech of All Time,\u201d which included historical speeches ranging from Socrates to Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

Mooney has adapted 17 of the plays of Moli\u00e8re and is the author of the acting textbook, \u201cActing at the Speed of Life; Conquering Theatrical Style.\u201d Mooney\u2019s skill at turning rhetorical complexity into theatrical power gets its greatest test with \u201cHamlet.\u201d (He has, in fact, published his complete adaptation, along with a facing-page concordance including research and acting notes, as \u201cThe Breakneck Hamlet Companion,\u201d available via Amazon.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI was inspired to bring substance and passion to the soliloquies and great speeches (while bridging the gaps of the ongoing action with a playful, snarky commentary that I can\u2019t quite resist),\u201d Mooney says of \u201cBreakneck Hamlet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intent is to add by subtraction,\u201d he continues. \u201cBy removing a dozen actors and three hours of melancholy, we surface the power that the original Elizabethan audience must have felt. It gives the modern audience access to what is generally considered the greatest play of all time. We are suddenly more aware of a delicate and dangerous political battle, between two equally powerful, and equally aware players fighting over who gets to be king.\u201d<\/p>\n

Admission to the play is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors 60 and over, and $5 for children 12 and under. Special discounts for adult or senior tickets are available for groups of 15 or more.<\/p>\n

The Acts, Arts, Academia performance and lecture series is supported by Tusculum Arts Outreach, Hearts for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the late Dr. Sam Miller in memory of Agnes Ault Miller and generous donors and volunteers.<\/p>\n

To reserve tickets or for more information, contact Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620 or email jhollowell@tusculum.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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