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Mike Daisey has earned a critical reputation as a master monologuist - that is to say, his form of stage craft is not to present a play, per se, but to present a narration full of ideas, images, and emotion using not characters, props, and scripted dialogue, but rather a general outline of the ideas and thematic threads he wishes to explore and his own quick wits. In other words, though Daisey knows the broad shape of the material he’s presenting for any given performance, the specifics come to him as he’s speaking - and the results have garnered raves.
Critics use words like "elegant," "raucous," and "gifted" to describe Daisey’s monologues and his personal style. "Half the fun of Mike Daisey is watching him spin out a tangle of ideas," wrote The Villager, "and wondering how he’ll lasso them into a coherent story."
Truly, this was the main concern your EDGE interviewer had: how to talk about material that had to be heard to be experienced?
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