The reviews for TRUTH are in!
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Elegantly woven...Engaging and intellectually curious"
"A spontaneity and freshness missing from many confessional pieces"
"Mr. Daisey is rarely obvious. His stories resist easy conclusions and cheap laughs. There is nothing as simple as a thesis here, but Mr. Daisey ultimately makes a case for the importance of trying to tell the truth."
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VARIETY:
"[Daisey's] description is consistently evocative, capturing a psychology of the everyday that's subtle and smart...a show that's more than the sum of its controversies."
"The ethics of literature isn't typical fodder for any drama, let alone a one-man show...What helps him avoid the pitfalls of didacticism is an eye attuned to the absurdity of daily life. In assessing the story of Frey and Leroy, Daisey comes to a judgment that is strict but sympathetic; he suggests that if people are often the least reliable narrators of their own lives, they are also sometimes the most engaging."
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METRO:
"Watching Daisey sort out anything on stage is a delirious, brainy, hilarious, infuriating experience from which one emerges perversely hopeful: the world may be screwed, but for one moment, it seems, at least one guy gets it."
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NYTHEATRE.COM:
"This story is not just about truth, it's about mortality. It's about loss, but it's also about connection. It's about storytelling itself, a story familiar to Mike Daisey, and, of course, to all of us. This story is comical without ever being smug. This story is redemptive without ever being maudlin. This is a true story in the best and fullest sense of the word."
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