Alec Connon The Activist
Breakneck Hamlet
Alec Connon The Activist
With Tanya Jones
Crescent Arts Centre Sunday 12 June – 8pm Tickets : £ 6 / £ 4
Breakneck Hamlet
With Timothy Mooney
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 .
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 anti- Apartheid 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 .
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 !
“ 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 .”
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