While Tim Mooney is mostly known for his hilarious, fast moving takes on Shakespeare (including last year’s award-winning, “Breakneck Midsummer Night’s Dream,” or 2024’s holdover winner, “Breakneck Twelfth Night,” back in 2019 Tim startled Fringe audiences everywhere with “Man Cave, a One-Man Sci-Fi Climate Change Tragicomedy,” picking up raves and awards along the way. In KC, The Pitch called it “captivating ... darkly humorous... richly filled” ... while audience reviews described “a frighteningly credible alternate future,” “beautifully crafted,” “a wild ride” “impeccable” and “the show we should all be talking about.”

And yet, SOMEHOW, mankind did NOT step away from that brink, instead pressing that accelerator, Thelma-and-Louise style ever further and faster toward that abyss.

While “Man Cave Volume I” left us with an impossible cliffhanger, the Idiocracy that is US opened the door to a future that you simply won’t see coming. This time, Tim “zooms out” into the only possible vision of that Earth/Hellscape that might still allow us to laugh in the face of the relentless apocalypse! The Kings River Life review cheered, “Tim uses witty reference to pop culture and politics to make complicated scientific observations understandable (and entertaining as heck).” Audience reviews called it “Amazing,” while one Indy Fringe viewer wrote, “We are screwed!”

Tim explains, “While ‘Man Cave I’ gave us a microcosm of what might happen in the very short time before everything shuts down, ‘Man Cave II’ (you don’t need to have seen the first to ‘get’ the second) zooms out to a billion mile/billion year vision of a world and a universe that may not have US in it any more. Or, as Molière famously said: “We die only once... and for such a long time!”