[NEohioPAL]Audience Departs Performance Artist And Defiles His Work

Fri Apr 27 08:04:48 PDT 2007

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I have been performing my original one-woman show, THE SIX AGES OF WOMAN, for 26 years now, for audiences of all types and ages, so I watched this video incident with great interest.  The difference between what I do and what Mike Daisey does is that he is an "open-to-the-public" theatrical event, where I am usually hired by the individual groups.  As a result, I always know what I'm walking into.   I have performed for corporate banquets, association conferences, hospital symposiums, women's clubs, social groups and senior citizen organizations.  My show is rated PG-13, (with reference to sex similar to that of standard sitcoms,) but I always tell my audiences what to expect up front in my introduction, especially if I see kids in the audience. 

  A big market for me is churches.  The Catholics and Methodists, Unity and Unitarians are easy going, down to earth, fantastic laughers and absolutely LOVE the show, often using it for fundraisers.  The Lutherans seem a bit more reserved, but still accept the material and enjoy...I will sometimes edit parts out for a particular performance knowing certain bits might not be appropriate for THAT particular audience.  Every comic knows they have to temper their material, for example, when they do a corporate event vs. a comedy club.  I have turned down requests by Southern Baptist or Evangelical Christian churches, because I know they would find even my subtle humor offensive to some degree.  

  In fairness to Mike Daisey's performance, I thought his comedic observations and delivery were BRILLIANT. He is truly one very talented man.  I, personally, would LOVE to see his show and know I would thoroughly enjoy it. However, the television review of Mike Daisey's show showed harmless clips of topical observations about writers block, etc., with no profanity or sexual reference. 

  In fairness to the CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL group who walked out immediately following that bit, I believe they had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA of what they were agreeing to participate in.  Mike Daisey did not just "use the "F" word."  He went close to a minute miming the act of intercourse yelling "I'm F**king Paris Hilton" Over and over again.  Was it funny?  Absolutely!  However, If I put myself in a position of being a Christian chaperon of a small town Christian group of high school kids, would I have removed them at that point?  I sure would have considered it.  

  **Did they have the right to leave the theater if they found the material offensive? Absolutely! 
  **Was it rude and upsetting to the performer and other audience members?  Absolutely! 
  **KNOWING he had TWO Christian high school groups filling his audience, could Mike Daisey have cut that ONE segment miming ""F**king Paris Hilton?"  ABSOLUTELY!
  **Did the male chaperon have ANY right to pour water over Mr. Daisey's script?  ABSOLUTELY NOT!  

  In doing that, the chaperon crossed the line from "protecting" his students, to exhibiting self-righteous, judgmental, assaulting behavior...BOTH gentlemen it seems, showed a momentary lack of sense and sensitivity.  

  On a positive note, I'm sure Mike Daisey's houses will be filled to the rafters now with all this wonderful publicity, so he will no doubt benefit from this incident.   

  Just one woman's opinion.

  Mary Faktor (the actor ;-)
  www.FaktorsTalentNetwork.com
  888-913-3473
  330-655-2895

  Fred Dolan <fjdolan at windstream.net> wrote:
              Interesting and disturbing incident related on PLAYBILL - http://www.playbill.com/ concerning performance artist Mike Daisey during a recent monologue. 2 articles from April 22 and April 24.

  Not only did 1/3 of his audience walk out of his performance at the same time, but one man comes up to the stage and pours water over Mr. Daisey's notes before leaving.

  Since Mr. Daisey videotapes all of his performances, the entire incident is available for viewing at http://www.mikedaisey.com/    Warning: Strong language in the video.

  Fred Dolan
  WJCU-FM, 88.7 & www.wjcu.org
  Visiting The Folks
  Sunday nights from 9:00PM - Midnight

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<DIV><FONT size=3>I have been performing my original one-woman show, THE SIX AGES OF WOMAN, for 26 years now, for audiences of all types and ages, so I watched this video incident with great interest.  The difference between what I do and what Mike Daisey does is that he is an "open-to-the-public" theatrical event, where I am usually hired by the individual groups.  As a result, I always know what I'm walking into.   I have performed for corporate banquets, association conferences, hospital symposiums, women's clubs, social groups and senior citizen organizations.  My show is rated PG-13, (with reference to sex similar to that of standard sitcoms,) but I always tell my audiences what to expect up front in my introduction, especially if I see kids in the audience. </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>A big market for me is churches.  The Catholics and Methodists, Unity
 and Unitarians are easy going, down to earth, fantastic laughers and absolutely LOVE the show, often using it for fundraisers.  The Lutherans seem a bit more reserved, but still accept the material and enjoy...I will sometimes edit parts out for a particular performance knowing certain bits might not be appropriate for THAT particular audience.  Every comic knows they have to temper their material, for example, when they do a corporate event vs. a comedy club.  I have turned down requests by Southern Baptist or Evangelical Christian churches, because I know they would find even my subtle humor offensive to some degree. </FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>In fairness to Mike Daisey's performance, I thought his comedic observations and delivery were BRILLIANT. He is truly one very talented man.  I, personally, would LOVE to see his show and know I would
 thoroughly enjoy it. However, the television review of Mike Daisey's show showed harmless clips of topical observations about writers block, etc., with no profanity or sexual reference. </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>In fairness to the CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL group who walked out immediately following that bit, I believe they had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA of what they were agreeing to participate in.  Mike Daisey did not just "use the "F" word."  He went close to a minute miming the act of intercourse yelling <EM>"I'm F**king Paris Hilton"</EM> Over and over again.  Was it funny?  Absolutely!  However, If I put myself in a position of being a Christian chaperon of a small town Christian group of high school kids, would I have removed them at that point?  I sure would have considered it.  </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT
 size=3>**Did they have the right to leave the theater if they found the material offensive? Absolutely! </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>**Was it rude and upsetting to the performer and other audience members?  Absolutely! </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>**KNOWING he had TWO Christian high school groups filling his audience, could Mike Daisey have cut that ONE segment miming ""F**king Paris Hilton?"  ABSOLUTELY!</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>**Did the male chaperon have ANY right to pour water over Mr. Daisey's script?  ABSOLUTELY NOT!  </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>In doing that, the chaperon crossed the line from "protecting" his students, to exhibiting self-righteous, judgmental, assaulting behavior...BOTH gentlemen it seems, showed a momentary lack of sense and sensitivity.  </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>On a positive note, I'm sure Mike Daisey's
 houses will be filled to the rafters now with all this wonderful publicity, so he will no doubt benefit from this incident.   </FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>Just one woman's opinion.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>Mary Faktor (the actor ;-)</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.FaktorsTalentNetwork.com"><FONT size=3>www.FaktorsTalentNetwork.com</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>888-913-3473</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=3>330-655-2895<BR></FONT></DIV>  <DIV> </DIV>  <DIV><B><I>Fred Dolan <fjdolan at windstream.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>  <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">  <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR>  <STYLE></STYLE>    <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>  <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"
 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>  <DIV><FONT size=2>Interesting and disturbing incident related on PLAYBILL - <A title=http://www.playbill.com/ href="http://www.playbill.com/">http://www.playbill.com/</A> concerning performance artist Mike Daisey during a recent monologue. 2 articles from April 22 and April 24.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=2>Not only did 1/3 of his audience walk out of his performance at the same time, but one man comes up to the stage and pours water over Mr. Daisey's notes before leaving.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=2>Since Mr. Daisey videotapes all of his performances, the entire incident is available for viewing at <A title=http://www.mikedaisey.com/ href="http://www.mikedaisey.com/">http://www.mikedaisey.com/</A>    Warning: Strong language in the video.</FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>  <DIV><FONT size=2>Fred Dolan</FONT></DIV> 
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