Mike Daisey

[Spawn's dad]

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2007/04/night-to-remember.sht

 

Monologuist Mike Daisey's performance of "Invincible Summer" at ART's Zero Arrow was interrupted Thursday night when an 87-member group stood and walked out of the performance space. During the walk-out, one member of the group approached Daisey's performance table and destroyed the outline the performer uses to tell his nightly tale, Daisey told Bostonist on Friday.

 

Daisey posted to both the ART blog and his official website on Friday with a recap of what unfolded:

 

"I am performing the show to a packed house, when suddenly the lights start coming up in the house as a flood of people start walking down the aisles

[TheMaker]

Wow, that was shitty beyond belief. An artist myself, I'm perhaps overly sensitive about this curious brand of intolerance, but I think most people would agree that what happened here was just plain bad behaviour. An individual walking out on a performance after registering some sort of genuine grievance is fine and dandy, I think, but this sort of organized "protest" (tinted with an added bonus in the form of vandalism) seems remarkably shallow and self-important to me.

 

I'm not familiar with Daisey, but his anecdotal style seems observant and witty. I think he handled the incident with a lot of grace.