These seventeen iambic pentameter variations of the plays (most published by Playscripts, Inc.), have been produced over 150 times, around the world. Mooney is the former founder and editor of The Script Review and also the former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Stage Two Theatre, where he produced nearly fifty plays in five years, including many new versions of the plays of Moliere, featuring Mooney’s impish sense of rhyme. He also presents one monologue from every Shakespeare play in his one-man show, Lot o’ Shakespeare, along with his collection of some of the most amazing speeches ever, in The Greatest Speech of All Time. Over fifteen years, Tim has performed his very first one-man play, Moliere than Thou, over 500 times, giving some hundred thousand students their first introduction to Moliere.
A virtuous gentlewoman, mild, and beautiful I hope my master's suit will be but cold, Since she respects my mistress' love so much. Julia Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare Act 4 Scene 4 Julia And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her. Mooney’s acting textbook Acting at the Speed of Life is breathing life into stylistic performance at high schools and colleges, while his The Big Book of Moliere Monologues has given actors everywhere a new resource for comic classical auditions. Suggested Classical Monologues June 2018 of 16 2. Timothy Mooney is the author/adaptor of Breakneck Hamlet and Shakespeare’s Histories Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace! new one-man plays which “crack the code” on Shakespeare’s most challenging plays, making them accessible to audiences everywhere. Ashleigh Gardner received her AA in Theatre/Drama/Dramatic Arts from Valencia College and her Bachelors Degree in English Literature and Masters Degree in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies from the University of Central Florida.