Even if you’ve never heard of monologist Mike Daisey, you owe it to yourself to see him perform at the first opportunity. Daisey (who hails from the same county in Maine as AF’s David Driscoll), is a one-man-show whose storytelling is comparable to that of Julia Sweeney or the late Spalding Gray. (Incidentally, Daisey is also an atheist and was the victim of a notorious “mass walk-out” by a Christian group protesting his show “Invincible Summer.”)
In “The Last Cargo Cult”–playing at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta through April 11th–Daisey fuses an account of his trip to celebrate John Frum Day on a tiny island in the South Pacific to the recent near-meltdown of the American financial system. (The photo I snapped with my iPhone isn’t really representative of the show, although it does look pretty dramatic. At no time during the monologue did Mike Daisey set himself on fire.)
For more about Mike Daisey visit MikeDaisey.com or watch a preview of The Last Cargo Cult.
Saw the matinee on April 11. Very good. Your post was instrumental in the decision to go, had I not seen your post, my attention to the program insert at ASO the week before would have been nil.