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created and performed by Mike Daisey, directed by Jean-Michele Gregory Aug. 6 & 7, 8 p.m.Seattle Rep PONCHO Forum Free
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Seating is limited—first come, first served (arriving early is highly recommended)
Be the very first to hear master storyteller Mike Daisey's fascinating tale of Apple CEO Steve Jobs—a real-life Willy Wonka whose deep obsessions have shaped our modern age. Daisey will be in Seattle for two nights testing out his new material, which will appear on the Bagley Wright stage this season, April 22-May 22, 2011.
After this workshop the monologue travels around the world, including to India, the Sydney Opera House, and Berkeley Rep, before coming back to Seattle. But it all starts here. Hope you can join us
About The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Mike Daisey reveals the fascinating story of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Tracing his meteoric rise, Daisey shows us how, in our lifetime, controlling our interface has become the key to controlling the world itself—and how the digital tools we use every day change us as they tell our stories. Breaking free of the virtual, Daisey follows the trail all the way to China where millions of workers toil in factories to create iPhones and iPods in a world we pretend does not exist. A darkly hilarious tale of pride, beauty, lust, and industrial design, Daisey illuminates the war to control how we see the world, and the human price we are willing to pay for our technology.
About Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey has been called "the master storyteller" and "one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by The New York Times for his groundbreaking monologues which weave together autobiography, gonzo journalism, and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking stories that cut to the bone, exposing secret histories and unexpected connections. His monologues include last season's critically acclaimed The Last Cargo Cult, the controversial How Theater Failed America, the six-hour epic Great Men of Genius, the unrepeatable series All Stories Are Fiction, and the international sensation 21 Dog Years. He has performed across five continents, ranging from Off-Broadway at the Public Theater to remote islands in the South Pacific, from the Sydney Opera House to abandoned theaters in post-Communist Tajikistan. He's been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, as well as a commentator and contributor to WIRED, Vanity Fair, Slate, Salon, NPR and the BBC. His first film, Layover, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival this year, and a feature film of his monologue If You See Something Say Something is currently in post production. His second book, Rough Magic, a collected anthology of his monologues, will be published in 2011. He has been nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, two Drama League Awards, and is the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, four Seattle Times Footlight Awards, the Sloan Foundation's Galileo Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship.
