TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS

MASTER STORYTELLER
MIKE DAISEY

PERFORMING HIS REVOLUTIONARY MONOLOGUE
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS

CREATED & PERFORMED BY MIKE DAISEY
DIRECTED BY JEAN-MICHELE GREGORY

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13-15, 2012, 8:00 P.M.
AT THE MCCULLOUGH THEATRE

POST-PERFORMANCE CONVERSATION IN THE HALL
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FUSEBOX FESTIVAL
AND THE UT DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE

“The best new American play of the year…” – The Washington Post

“Daisey may not be perfect, but he is brave.” – Times of London

“The only showman in America who matters.” – Metromix

In 2010, Texas Performing Arts presented Mike Daisey performing his hit monologue The Last Cargo Cult. Daisey returns to the McCullough Theatre stage with his controversial new show, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS.

Mike Daisey, hailed as “the master storyteller” by the New York Times, turns his razor-sharp wit to America’s most mysterious technology icon in this hilarious and harrowing tale of pride, beauty, lust, and industrial design. He illuminates how the former CEO of Apple and his obsessions shape our lives, while following the trail all the way to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPods. Daisey’s journey shines a light on our love affair with our devices and the human cost of creating them.

Since 2010 this revolutionary monologue has played extended runs around the world to sold-out crowds and rave reviews. By examining the human price we pay for our high-tech toys, Daisey opened a Pandora’s box in the world of technology and production, demanding social responsibility in the corporate sector, inspiring his audiences to action, and influencing drastic change in the corporate practices of both Apple and Foxconn, Apple’s supplier in China.

In January the show was featured on “This American Life” and quickly became the most downloaded episode in the radio show’s history. Two months later, TAL issued a public retraction for dramatizations in the monologue, leading to a national conversation about art and journalism, about truth-in-fact and essential truths, and about the role of truth in theater and storytelling.

Today THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS is stronger, sharper, and more important than ever. This all-new version cuts the contested material and addresses the controversy head on, using the struggle over fact and fiction as an opportunity to tell an even better story that pierces the heart of our human relationship with our labor.

If you think you’ve seen it before, you don’t know this story. If you think you heard it on the radio, you haven’t heard anything.

And if you’ve never seen it, now is the moment to experience what many are calling the most notorious and controversial play of the decade.

For more information on this performance, please visit http://texasperformingarts.org/season/mike-daisey-austin.

Campus & Community Engagement Event:

Post-Performance talkback with Mike Daisey in the hall immediately following the evening performance on Friday September 14th.

CALENDAR LISTING
Thursday – Saturday, September 13 – 15, 2012, 8:00 pm –Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin presents Mike Daisey: THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS at the McCullough Theatre (2375 Robert Dedman Dr.) A map of the campus: texasperformingarts.org/visit/maps_directions. Tickets ($42 / Limited $10 student tickets / discounted tickets available for UT faculty & staff, seniors and Military) are on sale now at authorized ticket outlets, which include the Bass Concert Hall Box Office, most H-E-B stores and all Texas Box Office outlets, online at www.TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO.

PRESS CONTACT:
Gene Bartholomew; 512.471.0632
gbartholomew@TexasPerformingArts.org

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