The Arts | Monologuist Mike Daisey gets fired up about two Seattle shows | Seattle Times Newspaper:
In casual conversation, Mike Daisey is generally polite, agreeable and doesn't come across as a flame-throwing theater radical.
And the format of the semiautobiographical monologues he crafts (with director-wife Jean-Michele Gregory) and performs around the U.S. and abroad is simplicity itself.
In the manner of the late, great solo spieler Spalding Gray, the fair-haired, round-bodied Daisey works on stage garnished by a small table.
No video projections, no music, no lighting effects. Just a very smart, funny guy ... yakking.
But also like the late Gray, Daisey is a riveting raconteur — and a sly provocateur.
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