The Stranger, June 16th, 2005
Mike Daisey's newest monologue is a mostly light-hearted scrapbook narrative - the classic story of an American abroad, with a soft parody of college theater on the side. By the end of the evening, though, the bumbling thespian routine has split open, revealing a much darker, more interesting core of violence and jealousy.
The story starts as Daisey jets off to London for a study-abroad program in theater, but soon he's spending a lot of time south of the Thames in an experimental Marxist-feminist production of Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom in an abandoned church. Both storylines verge on the...
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