Daisey Does Shakespeare

Daisey Does Shakespeare

Mike Daisey is back with four separate monologues about the Bard’s great tragedies.

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The Worm in the Apple

15 February, 2011 Theater No comments
The Worm in the Apple

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is viral entertainment. Mike Daisey’s monologue is a marvelously entertaining, at times tremendously funny reflection on Apple culture, but along the way it delivers a payload of information that it would be easier and more comforting not to know but that you cannot, and must not, unhear.

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In Money We Trust

In Money We Trust

New York-based monologist Mike Daisey has been a frequent visitor to Berkeley Rep with his one-man shows 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com, The Ugly American, and Great Men of Genius—the last of which was actually four different monologues that he performed in repertory. Now he’s back with two new pieces that he also performs in repertory, although not two a night like last time around. The first of them, The Last Cargo Cult, opened last week, and it runs in repertory with The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

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