Timothy Mooney returns to the Tampa Fringe with
“Man Cave” a One-Man Sci-Fi Climate Change Tragicomedy
MAN CAVE TRAILER

Author/performer Tim Mooney is returning for his third Tampa Fringe in three years! Mooney’s last two performances, “Breakneck Julius Caesar” and “Breakneck Hamlet” reaped enthusiastic response in Years 1 and 2 of the Tampa Fringe. In a surprise move, this year’s Tim Mooney Rep production jumps from 500 years in the past to a yet-unknown future, with Man Cave, a One-Man Sci-Fi Climate Change Tragicomedy!

This time around, Mooney projects ahead into the sci-fi landscape of the near-future result of an Earth that has been driven to extinction! Audiences are calling it “cathartic…” “electrifying…” “haunting.”

Loaded with irony and gallows humor, Man Cave strikes an urgent chord as the “last man on earth” (coincidentally, “Tim”) reveals a hindsight that only the future can offer. Burrowed into a “Hobbit home” somewhere in Canada, Tim broadcasts into a microphone for whomever might yet be out there listening. As he realizes that perhaps there may not be anyone, he turns his aim toward warning whatever far corners of the universe may still be receiving radio signals. Along with a stirring rallying cry for saving the planet, Man Cave walks a line that draws chortles and laughs in the face of a deadly future looming.

Man Cave had its world premiere at the 2018 Orlando International Fringe Festival, where the Orlando Sentinel describe it as “Al Gore replaced by William H. Macy with a lot more swagger and humor than the former vice president could ever manage [with] tenacious urgency [and] charismatic rage.”

Mooney explains, “We find ourselves staring down the paradox of taking action on global warming while, at the same time, waiting for incontrovertible ‘proof’ of man-made climate change. By the time any such proof is established, it will be too late to stop the inertia of a world that has hit the tipping point.

“I realized that the best way to underline the crisis was through science fiction: rather than argue over whether we’ve got 50 or 100 years left, I wanted to explore the fallout from all the time that gets wasted in the thick of the argument. Once climate change is our reality, tossing around numbers and probabilities will by then be a meaningless quibble; in the future I envision, climate change simply “is” and the one man remaining has a unique warning to send to the rest of the universe. I’m hoping a play that is both funny and frightening will bring the climate change conversation onto the table in a new and effective way.”

Man Cave, suggested for ages 13 and up (with some idiomatic cursing)

Showtimes:
Friday, May 3 at 10:45 PM
Saturday, May 4 at 6:00 PM
Sunday, May 5 at 4:30 PM
Friday, May 10, 9:15 PM
Saturday, May 11 at 2:45 PM

Tickets: $15 for the General Public ($11 for Students and Seniors)
Purchase Tickets here: https://tampafringe.ticketleap.com/man-cave/
(Additional online ticketing fees may apply)
Venue is located at: HCC STUDIO THEATRE, 1411 E 11th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605 (Directions & Map)

Man Cave Quick Takes

Tim Mooney can be found at: http://timmooneyrep.com/