Hello All,
Today we have a big announcement.
We're returning to the Public Theater this year with six new monologues.
And we're starting with a bang: the very first one will be on October 22nd, when we'll premiere AMERICAN UTOPIAS, my new monologue about Disney World, Burning Man, and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Here's the description:
Master storyteller Mike Daisey brings us a distinctly American vision of utopia—how we create public spaces in which we come together to act out our dreams of a better world. Daisey takes us everywhere to pursue the story: from Disney World and its nostalgic theme park perfection, to the drug-fueled anarchic excesses of Burning Man, to Zuccotti Park, where in the unlikeliest place the Occupy movement is born. Gunplay, giant glittery dildos, raving animatronic presidents, and brutal police actions come together to paint the landscape of our American dream.
This series is the culmination of a dream Jean-Michele and I have had for a few years—to stage a series that would let us create more monologues than is possible in a traditional theater season. Each month we'll be announcing the title and details of the next new piece.
This will be your only chance to see this work in New York—each monologue will be one night only. AMERICAN UTOPIAS is slated to tour around the country, but I don't know when it will be back in NYC again.
Tickets are limited, and you can order them HERE.
I hope you can join us for this event.
Be seeing you,
md
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AMERICAN UTOPIAS
Created and Performed by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
Master storyteller Mike Daisey brings us a distinctly American vision of utopia—how we create public spaces in which we come together to act out our dreams of a better world. Daisey takes us everywhere to pursue the story: from Disney World and its nostalgic theme park perfection, to the drug-fueled anarchic excesses of Burning Man, to Zuccotti Park, where in the unlikeliest place the Occupy movement is born. Gunplay, giant glittery dildos, raving animatronic presidents, and brutal police actions come together to paint the landscape of our American dream.
Mike Daisey’s groundbreaking monologues weave together autobiography, gonzo journalism, and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking stories that cut to the bone, exploring stories that define our age through Daisey's blend of hilarious comedy, brilliant observation, and pitch-perfect timing. This is a rare opportunity to see Daisey do what he does best: a master storyteller at the peak of his form, weaving new stories about the things that actually matter.
"A monologuist who always threatens to burst out of his chosen form—funny, literate and provocative."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Sharp-witted, passionately delivered talk about matters both small and huge, at once utterly individual and achingly universal."
BOSTON GLOBE
“The master storyteller—one of the finest solo performers of his generation.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Daisey's skill is that he is able to talk about the historical and make it human, the personal and make it universal, so that the listener is both informed and transformed."
PAPER MAGAZINE
"A charismatic performer, his shows have the insightful hostility of the best comedy."
THE NEW YORKER
"Mike Daisey is funny, earnest, wonderful company and so smart he'd burn holes in the ground if he wasn't wearing shoes— he is an artist that the American theater needs, and one we would be lost without."
OSKAR EUSTIS, Artistic Director of The Public Theater
