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About the ShowFearless autobiographer and gonzo journalist Mike Daisey returns with the story of his journey to a remote South Pacific island whose people worship America and its cargo at the base of a constantly erupting volcano. Part adventure story and part memoir, this narrative is woven against a searing examination of the international financial crisis that gripped the globe at the same moment. Using each culture to illuminate the other, Daisey wrestles with the largest questions of what the collapse means, and what it can tell us about our deepest values. “What’s undeniable is that you are in the presence of an original.” Click here to buy tickets...
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MIKE DAISEY(Creator and Performer) 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 If You See Something Say Something, 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. Over the last decade he has brought his work to venues including the Public Theater, the Cherry Lane Theater, the Barrow Street Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, the Spoleto Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Center Theater Group, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Noorderzon Festival, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Perseverance Theatre, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Intiman Theatre, the Under the Radar Festival, Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts, Performance Space 122, and many more. He’s been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, as well as a commentator and contributor to Studio 360, WIRED, Vanity Fair, Slate, Salon, WNYC 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 will be released next year. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller’s Tale, was published by the Free Press and his second book, a collected anthology of his monologues, will be published by TCG in the fall of 2010. He has been nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, two Drama League Awards, and has been the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, four Seattle Times Footlight Awards, the EST/Sloan Galileo Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship. DIRECTORJEAN-MICHELE GREGORY(Director) works as a director, editor, and dramaturg, focusing on unscripted, extemporaneous theatrical works that live in the moment they are told. Working primarily with solo artists, for the last decade she has collaborated with monologist Mike Daisey, directing at venues across the globe including the Public Theater, the Barrow Street Theatre, the Cherry Lane Theater, Center Theater Group, the Under the Radar Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Chicago’s Museum for Contemporary Art, American Repertory Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Noorderzon Festival, Intiman Theatre, ACT Theatre, Performance Space 122, the T:BA Festival, and many more. She also works with New York storyteller Martin Dockery (Wanderlust, The Surprise) and the Seattle-based performer and writer Suzanne Morrison (Yoga Bitch, Your Own Personal Alcatraz). Her productions have received three Seattle Times Footlight Awards (21 Dog Years, The Ugly American, Monopoly!), the Bay Area Critics Circle Award (Great Men of Genius), and nominations from the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle (If You See Something Say Something). Schedule
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“How does Mike Daisey do it? Show after show, he spins a new true story that has us screaming with laughter and gasping at his caustic insight. We’re bringing him back for the third time because this next story is something you absolutely must hear. Among a people fascinated by American power but outside the reach of the global economy, Mike looks for a new way to understand our own financial dysfunction. We couldn’t be more thrilled to make his story a part of Season 30 at Woolly Mammoth.” – Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director "A year after the financial crisis began to spin out of control we still have no real answers about what the collapse means. The news cycle constantly urges us not to think too deeply on it. Today our banks are running record-breaking profits once again, unemployment is surging, and real work is running dry. We are told this is the face of the recovery. Perhaps it is. But a recovery for whom? This new piece asks the most important questions about the shape of the religion of finance, our complicity in the system we breathe every day, and the true human cost we pay to keep things the way they are. It is an adventure story, a memoir, a travelogue, and a kind of prayer for the possibility of change. It is set on an island in the South Pacific, where I lived beneath an erupting volcano with a people just beyond the reach of money. It is also set on the island of Manhattan, where Wall Street opens every day to establish the price of all the things of man that can be owned." – Mike Daisey
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Mike Daisey, photos by Stan Barouh Woolly Mammoth would like to thank the following patrons for their generous support of The Last Cargo Cult:Patricia G. Butler
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