Thursday, April 24, 2008

Mike Daisey - How Theater Failed America :: EDGE New York City:

Ticket holders at actor and author Mike Daisey’s one-man show How Theater Failed America ought to have expected to be challenged, but they probably weren’t all prepared to hear his opening salvo, "You shouldn’t have come here." Daisey, who has taken on Amazon.com, James Frey and Wal-Mart, is on the offensive with his newest monologue, which appeared earlier this year at the Public’s Under the Radar festival and, like a stubborn nettle in a rose garden, has grown back twice as large.