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What the HELL--?
Apr. 21st, 2007 09:43 amOkay, I wasn't sure I was going to mention it, because I thought some much more read theatre blogs than mine would right away, and I didn't have anything intelligent to say in response to it, just fury.
Anyone else read about what happened to Mike Daisey at his performance of Invincible Summer at ART a couple of days ago?
He tells the story HERE. Please read.
The only mention I've seen so far in the blogs was in a comment on Isaac's blog, which asks a lot of pertinent questions about the apparent protest and attack. Such as, who were they and why this show? I immediately searched Daisey's reviews for a sign of anything "controversial" that might have provoked this response, and didn't find anything.
So, WHY? And, seeing as it seems to have been organized, WHO?
I used to help run the NADA theatres for several years, and was present around a couple hundred shows for several hundred more performances. It's Off-Off-Broadway, some of those shows are going to be provocative in one way or another. We had walk outs, of course, and sometimes obviously due to offense. Most often people just left in obvious disgust, sometimes they added a disgusted noise. Every now and then a person would say or yell something at the performers on the way out. It happens. But THIS?
(and I'm much more upset about the deliberate destruction of an important part of Daisey's work -- his handwritten outline for the show -- than about the walkouts; that makes me nauseous)
I just don't get it, and keep wondering WHO? and WHY? Thus far a Google search doesn't bring up anything (except the odd linkage to a promo for Daisey's show from "Free Christian Monologues.com").
And I say again, What the HELL--?
UPDATE: Mike Daisey has added a heartbreaking and ultimately beautiful video of the incident at his site HERE.
I think he knocks his own recovery in his written account far too much. I think he handled it as gracefully and eloquently as possible.
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queencallipygos has written a piece about it that I agree with that you can read HERE.
Anyone else read about what happened to Mike Daisey at his performance of Invincible Summer at ART a couple of days ago?
He tells the story HERE. Please read.
The only mention I've seen so far in the blogs was in a comment on Isaac's blog, which asks a lot of pertinent questions about the apparent protest and attack. Such as, who were they and why this show? I immediately searched Daisey's reviews for a sign of anything "controversial" that might have provoked this response, and didn't find anything.
So, WHY? And, seeing as it seems to have been organized, WHO?
I used to help run the NADA theatres for several years, and was present around a couple hundred shows for several hundred more performances. It's Off-Off-Broadway, some of those shows are going to be provocative in one way or another. We had walk outs, of course, and sometimes obviously due to offense. Most often people just left in obvious disgust, sometimes they added a disgusted noise. Every now and then a person would say or yell something at the performers on the way out. It happens. But THIS?
(and I'm much more upset about the deliberate destruction of an important part of Daisey's work -- his handwritten outline for the show -- than about the walkouts; that makes me nauseous)
I just don't get it, and keep wondering WHO? and WHY? Thus far a Google search doesn't bring up anything (except the odd linkage to a promo for Daisey's show from "Free Christian Monologues.com").
And I say again, What the HELL--?
UPDATE: Mike Daisey has added a heartbreaking and ultimately beautiful video of the incident at his site HERE.
I think he knocks his own recovery in his written account far too much. I think he handled it as gracefully and eloquently as possible.
queencallipygos has written a piece about it that I agree with that you can read HERE.
