Monologist Daisey Finds an Invincible Summer at Yale Rep

Yale Repertory Theatre will present Mike Daisey's Invincible Summer for three performances only at The New Theater (1156 Chapel Street), March 29th - 31st at 8PM.
 
"One of the theatre's fiercest and funniest storytellers, monologist Mike Daisey has performed Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world. He's been a guest on 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' and his work has been heard on the NPR and the National Lampoon Radio Hour.  With Invincible Summer, Daisey marries his trademark comedy with insightful observations on crises both national and personal.  Contrasting a painful family rift with a backdrop of social upheaval, Daisey brilliantly tells a story of loss and faith in our time," as press notes state.  Jean-Michele Gregory directs.
 
Daisey's monologues include "21 Dog Years," "TRUTH," "Great Men of Genius," "Monopoly!," "The Ugly American," "Wasting Your Breath" and "I Miss the Cold War," which he's performed Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world. His series "All Stories Are Fiction" is available through Audible.com. Currently he's a commentator for NPR's "Day To Day," a contributor to Wired, Slate and Salon, and his writing appears in the anthology The Best Tech Writing 2006. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller's Tale, was published by the Free Press and he is working on a second book, Great Men of Genius, adapted from his monologues about genius and megalomania in the lives of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard. 
 
Gregory is a New York-based director who works with artists to create works based on autobiographical material. Since 1998, she's served as constant collaborator, dramaturg, and co-conspirator on all of Mike Daisey's monologues, directing productions at The Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Cherry Lane Theatre, Intiman Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, ACT Theatre, Performance Space 122, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Portland Center Stage and more, as well as teaching workshops and courses on the art of extemporaneous solo performance, most recently at Colby College. She's told her own stories with the Moth and Speakeasy, and she's currently at work on a memoir about her family's exodus from Poland to Texas and what it means to forgive.
 
Invincible Summer will play three performances only at The New Theater (1156 Chapel Street) on Thursday, March 29 at 8PM, Friday, March 30 at 8PM and Saturday, March 31 at 8PM.  A post-show discussion will follow the March 29th performance.
 
Tickets are $25 and $15 for students (with valid ID).  Yale Rep, Yale Cabaret and Summer Cabaret at Yale 2006 subscribers may purchase tickets for $20.   Tickets may be purchased online at www.yalerep.org or by phone at 203.432.1234.  For more information on Mike Daisey, visit www.mikedaisey.com