Yahoo! News: Mike Daisey, the off-Broadway performer who admitted that he made up parts of his one-man show about Apple products being made in Chinese sweatshops, has cut questionable sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the controversy. Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, where the monologue is being performed, said Saturday that Daisey has "eliminated anything he doesn't feel he can stand behind" from the show and added a section at the beginning in which he addresses the questions raised by critics.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Apple firestorm leads artist to change his show
Yahoo! News: Mike Daisey, the off-Broadway performer who admitted that he made up parts of his one-man show about Apple products being made in Chinese sweatshops, has cut questionable sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the controversy. Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, where the monologue is being performed, said Saturday that Daisey has "eliminated anything he doesn't feel he can stand behind" from the show and added a section at the beginning in which he addresses the questions raised by critics.
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I was once told that if I joined the theatre industry to say something then I am in the wrong business. Although I do not agree with this completely, through this article I can see how it is partially true. You can make a statement in the theatrical world, but you should not try to manipulate and use false information to do so, this is were the mix between acting and reporting comes in. This article makes a good point that Glass should have made an emotional response and altered the truthful information to do this. Not to make false claims and hope the individuals will gain truth from this. It seems we always have to do lots of warning and justifying to the audience before and after shows, but if done properly we should be able to create an emotional response and correct justifications without explanations. Hopefully his new monologue brings light to issues more than before, but does not slander individuals who show not be slandered.
I am appalled that a show about Apple's lead creator would include falsities in the first place. Story or not, Steve Jobs was very much a real person (and a well biographed one, too) so information about him should be factual. If Daisey wanted to tell an original story, he should have created that story. But a story about Steve Jobs should be a retelling. Howard Sherman brings up a good point about how theatre can use fact to bring out emotion. I am surprised Apple did not ask him to close his show or to run the show through them before presenting it. I mean, was there even a dramaturg on this show?!? Let's go, Daisey, get with it.
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