Alec Connon
The Activist
Breakneck
Hamlet
With Tanya Jones
With Timothy Mooney
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 12 June – 8pm
Tickets: £6 / £4
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 12 June – 8.30pm
Tickets: Free
In The Activist, Tom Durant believes that
he can help solve some of the gravest
problems facing the ocean by putting his
life on the line.
Chicago actor, Timothy Mooney recklessly
slices Shakespeare’s four-hour masterpiece
to a breathlessly inspiring and hilarious
hour-long one-man romp! Removing a
dozen actors and three hours of melancholy,
Mooney resurfaces the impact of the
greatest play of all time. No “melancholy
Dane,” his breakneck performance reveals
Hamlet as a complex, dangerous cat-andmouse, as two powerful players fight to the
death over who gets to be king!
Join author, Alec Connon, and local activist,
Tanya Jones, as they discuss the role that
activism can play in a healthy democracy.
Alec has been involved in successful
campaigns to stop Shell’s Arctic drilling, the
building of the Keystone XL pipeline, and
in the fossil fuel divestment movement. He
also recently helped to organize one of the
largest ever acts of civil disobedience in the
history of the Pacific Northwest of the USA.
This conversation will cover the history of
social movements - from woman’s suffrage
to the Civil Rights marches and the antiApartheid movement - and discuss their
achievements, and how similar movements
could affect our future.
The Activist was recently named Book of
the Month by Coast Magazine and Alec
was featured in BBC Wildlife magazine.
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“Breakneck Hamlet” has already appeared
at fringe festivals in Kansas City,
Minneapolis and Indianapolis. This summer
Tim is interrupting his performance tour
through the U.S. and Canada to try it out in
the land of his forebears.
KCMetropolis.org called it “A whirlwind of
wonderful. Hold onto your seats and watch
a master at his work.” Marc Gonzales calls it
“one for the fringe festival ages… a one-man
Hamlet done right!” while Nuvo Magazine
describes it as running “rings around that
other performance by Mel Gibson.”
Monday
13th June