Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 8 pm

New Yorker Mike Daisey creates groundbreaking monologues that weave gonzo journalism and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking stories that cut to the bone. The Last Cargo Cult is the engrossing account of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America at the base of a constantly erupting volcano.
Their religion is explored alongside our own to form a sharp and searing examination of the international financial crisis. Daisey wrestles with the largest questions of what the collapse means, and what it says about our deepest values.

Part adventure story and part memoir, he uses each culture to illuminate the other to find, between the seemingly
primitive and the achingly modern, a human answer.

“The master storyteller — one of the finest solo performers of his generation. What distinguishes him from most solo performers is how elegantly he blends personal stories, historical digressions and philosophical ruminations. He has the curiosity of a highly literate dilettante and a preoccupation with alternative histories, secrets large and small, and the fuzzy line where truth and fiction blur.
— The New York Times

mikedaisey.com

MIke Daisy in action far from the South Pacific :