Comments on: Mike Daisey: “Monopoly”

By: Jim Withington

Jim Withington — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:13:10 +0000

I see where you might be going with this, and how maybe i missed what you meant in the first place. It’s kind of a bit of a performer trick–heck maybe a writer trick, too–to throw in a call of action at the end of something, isn’t it?
And so, when Daisey threw in this vision at the end, and we are left feeling chills, what did it actually produce with that call? And will it work? And is this discussion, or the discussion other people are having around this, enough?
These are good questions that you are asking, if that’s what you are asking.

By: Abe

Abe — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:17:42 +0000

Well it definitely wasn’t an anti-Walmart assembly, and I appreciate, by all definitions, the notion of “The town sucked before,” and the shades of grey throughout the show. I guess I’m not sure what to make of the ending. I don’t see why it’s “not too late’ for us, or why it is for other people, and I guess it leads me to think he meant that it’s not too late for us to take bolt cutters to the fence he couldn’t get through, and, you know “fight the power/don’t believe the hype,” or otherwise bum rush the show, as Walmart blends, albeit in shades of gray, into the starker anti-corporate Microsoft/Parker Bros./Edison stuff. I was also, of course, trying to get a review out in a timely manner, and wouldn’t mind discussing the ending further with people other than my friends and I am certainly open to being educated and if that happens, I’ll definitely update this post.

By: Jim Withington

Jim Withington — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:34:26 +0000

Hey, so, I am not really sure he was saying don’t shop at wal*mart, at least not outright. It seemed to me like he was playing with the shades of grey.
Not so, to you?