Mike Daisey's THE TRUMP CARD Now Available for Free Download
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 06, 2016
As previously reported by BroadwayWorld, master monologist and storyteller Mike Daisey has chosen to make his latest theatre piece, THE TRUMP CARD, completely free to download on the Internet and perform without paying royalties. He also granted permission for anyone to freely change and adapt the material in any way desired.
And, just in time for the election, you can now download the script here.
"I always thought I'd do this again, but I never knew when until I started working on this show," Daisey writes in his introduction. "This release comes two months from a pivotal election, and I'm thrilled that millions of people will have access to The Trump Card, and that thousands of artists can choose to stage readings or whole productions as we speed toward November."
Daisey officially announced THE TRUMP CARD would be available for free last month:
He previously offered the same deal for his 2012 production THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF Steve Jobs, which resulted in more than 200 productions worldwide. Daisey has been touring THE TRUMP CARD during the summer and just returned to Joe's Pub in New York City for a performance on August 28th.
As described on the Joe's Pub website, in the show, "Mike Daisey takes on the reigning world heavyweight of self-mythologizing, the short-fingered vulgarian who captured a nation's heart through bullying, charm, one-syllable explosions, and occasionally telling the brutal truth: Donald J. Trump. Daisey tells Trump's story from his earliest days, tracking him as he makes himself into a new American archetype-the very first rich man famous exclusively for being rich. Instead of dismissing Trump as a simple con artist and huckster, Daisey breaks down what makes Trump tick-and in doing so illuminates the state of our American Dream and how we've sold it out."
"While I loathe Trump personally and politically," Daisey has written, "I have to be honest and admit that I admire his work deeply. Whether I would like to admit it or not, our jobs are cousins to one another: We both speak to audiences and control the room. The ends to which we turn our work are wildly different, but the tool sets are not. In the same way a magician must acknowledge the stagework of another master, I have to admire him. He's very good at his job, and we're taught in the theatre as artists that there is nothing rarer or sexier than true competency. Donald Trump is very, very good at being Donald Trump."
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