May 07, 2007
Making a Spectacle
Time for a movie. Here's the background. Storyteller Mike Daisey was performing an original monologue at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge last month. He was delighted to see a larger crowd than usual in the theater one evening.
Midway through his performance, ostensibly in reaction to the "F" word, as applied to Paris Hilton, 87 Christians, visiting from California, rose in unison and left the premises silently. One saw fit to pour water all over Daisey's script. Daisey handled it with aplumb.
The whole creepy event was captured on video for your edification.
It's puzzling why the group in question chose to attend in the first place. They must have known something about the general content of the performance. Perhaps it was to make a moral statement. At about $38 a ticket, not to mention the ensuing publicity, it seems that the theater benefited -- it was also $3000 that didn't go into the donation plate.
Photo note: The entrance to the Star Ferry that runs between Hong Kong and Kowloon all decked out for The Year of the Golden Pig. Also a spectacle.
Posted by Dakota at May 7, 2007 11:01 PM