[UA] [Fwd: MONOPOLY!: A brand-new show, with electricity.]

[Chris Hall]

I thought that I would pass this on for any of my fellow New Yorkers.  
Mike Daisey is one of the contributors to Postmodern Magick and a 
brilliant performer.  The topic sounds not unrelated to UA-type 
scenarios, too.

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Subject: 	MONOPOLY!: A brand-new show, with electricity.
Date: 	Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:08:58 -0500
From: 	Mike Daisey <announce at mikedaisey.com>
Reply-To: 	dilettante at mikedaisey.com
To: 	<chris at chrisahall.com>



This weekend is the premiere of my latest monologue . . .


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MONOPOLY!
Tesla, Edison, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and the War for Tomorrow*

FIVE SHOWS ONLY!
All shows @ 10:30 PM
*fri 2/18, sat 2/19
fri 2/25, sat 2/26
fri 3/4*

At the *OHIO THEATRE* in lovely Soho
66 Wooster St, between Spring and Broome

Tickets only $*15* online through SmartTix, 212-868-4444
OR FOLLOW THIS LINK: _http://tinyurl.com/49neb_

Jean-Michele and I are ecstatic over this new show: to be premiering in 
NYC in a monologue that includes THE LARGEST TESLA COIL ON THE ISLAND OF 
MANHATTAN--well, there are few things better than that in my book.

We're talking about a Class IV Tesla Coil, which generates arcs of 
ionizing electricity over ten feet in length. As our producer told me 
yesterday, "Mike, if you have any metal in your body, anywhere, you'd 
better know before we turn this thing on."

For pictures of the coil in all its glory, shots of Tesla's last 
laboratory and other assorted mischief, check out http://mikedaisey.com 
where you'll find it all laid out. But to actually *see* the coil with 
its ten-foot arcs of wild ionizing power, and to see if I survive--to 
see that, you need to come to /Monopoly!/

We're thrilled to be playing in rep with BOOZY!, and to be produced by 
Les Freres Corbusier. A fantastic preview piece on BOOZY! at the New 
York Times via this link: http://tinyurl.com/4ukkj and the full skinny 
on BOOZY!, including tickets, can be found at http://boozyshow.com
(See both shows for $25--no better deal in NYC will ever exist.)

* * *

YOU CAN'T PLAY THE GAME IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE RULES

In his latest monologue, Mike Daisey illuminates the warped genius of 
Nikola Tesla and his war with Edison over electricity, a battle etched 
into the streets of New York City. Threads loop and whorl around 
Microsoft's historic antitrust lawsuit, the checkered history of the 
game Monopoly, and ultimately the story of Daisey's own hometown and its 
one remaining retailer: Wal-Mart.

THE RULEBOOK WILL NEVER BE PUBLISHED

Subversive and hilarious, /Monopoly! /brings to life the questions we 
confront in our benevolent era of corporate rule, and the struggles each 
of us faces in a system that recognizes only profit and loss.

DO NOT PASS GO


/Praise for Mike Daisey's previous monologues:/

"absolutely hilarious . . . his often vociferous malice is delicious"
The New York Times

"the insightful hostility of the best comedy"
The New Yorker

"Noam Chomsky meets Jack Black"
The Seattle Times

"comic delivery so sharp it draws blood"
San Jose Mercury News

"sharply satirical, relentlessly funny"
The Oregonian

"Daisey has wreaked his own brand of havoc"
Washington Post

* * *

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