Parabasis: How Theater Failed America: The Cliffs Notes:
If you can see Daisey's show, you absolutely should. It'll be back in NYC in a couple of months. But in the meantime, I thought I'd briefly talk about the show so we could all have a common frame of reference for discussing what it raises.
The show is actually two different things at once... one half of it is an excoriation of the failures of the regional theater movement over the past couple of decades. This section is drawn from Daisey's experience as an actor and as a touring monologist who is often called in to replace (as cheaply as possible) cancelled shows in a LORT theater's season. The other section is about Daisey's own experience in the theatre and how it saved his life and how he found his own voice.
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