MCC paint-in exhibit will be on display through April 11

MCC students in drawing class help hang nearly 200 works of arts from 21 area high school as part of the MCC paint-in art exhibit on display through April 11 at the Wrightstone Gallery on campus. Courtesy photo

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Nearly 200 art pieces from a wide range of media created by high school students from 21 area schools are on display through April 11 as part of the 2014 McCook Community College Paint-In and exhibition.

It all caps off with the paint-in competition April 11 at the MCC Event Center.

The Wrightstone Gallery is open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and Tuesday and Thursdays until 9 p.m.

MCC's Graphic Design and Visual Communication exhibition April 28-May 9.

MCC bringing 'Lot O' Shakespeare' to Fox Theater

McCook Community College is bringing a one-man, interactive Shakespearean performance to McCook's historic Fox Theater April 21 at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

Timothy Mooney, author of the new acting textbook "Acting at the Speed of Life," as well as "The Big Book of Moliere Monologues," presents one monologue from every Shakespeare play in this one-man show.

It's so interactive audience members have the chance to win prizes.

Mooney is the former founder and editor of The Script Review and was the Artistic Director of Chicago's Stage Two Theatre, where he produced nearly fifty plays in five years, which eventually included many new versions of the plays of Moliere, featuring Mooney's impish sense of rhyme.

"He takes highbrow art and mixes it with lowbrow fun. Mooney is an engaging presence and can switch from indignation in 'Comedy of Errors' to earnest in a love sonnet to comical Malvolio in 'Twelfth Night.' He may not be as physically imposing as some actors to play Henry V, but his St. Crispen's Day speech made me want to take up arms with him," said Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel theater critic.

Mooney said when he started envisioning an acting workshop and a one-man show he wondered what might be the best order to package these speeches: in the order that the events in the plays actually occurred, according to their date of composition, by the position of the monologue within its play of origin?

"In the end, I decided to leave it to chance, select the order by lottery and let the audience play along," he said.

For more information about this event contact MCC Theater Instructor Clay Grizzle at 345-8173