Mike Daisey: FROM THIS MOMENT YOU ARE CURSED
FROM THIS MOMENT YOU ARE CURSED Created and Performed by Mike Daisey
In
a searing evening Mike Daisey is the first theater artist in America to
address the war in the Ukraine, starting from the indelible image of a
Ukranian woman telling a Russian soldier to fill his pockets with
sunflower seeds, so when he dies plants will bloom on his corpse. A night
of stories of dark winds through the forests, terrifying Eastern European
babcias, the return of the Cold War, and the price we pay for the monsters
we fail to stake through the heart.
Mike Daisey, who has been
called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of
his generation” by The New York Times, is the preeminent monologist in the
American theater today.
Praise for Mike Daisey at the Kraine:
"He
is outstanding. These were startling and stirring words, the kind that
hogtie your attention. They are worth having Daisey, and live theater,
back for."
The New York Times
"I felt home again—listening
to a talented storyteller spin a version of a year not entirely unlike the
one I had just spent, felt really, really good."
The Washington
Post
"Amid all the laughs, there’s a lucid lesson—Mike Daisey
singlehandedly redefines the concept of mansplaining. He strips the
practice of its condescension and defensiveness and turns it into a
conscientious and humble discipline of self-examination as a man."
DC
Metro Arts
