Public Theater to Premiere Mike Daisey's Unique Monologue Series ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON, Begin. 9/5

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) will begin performances for the world premiere of Mike Daisey's ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON, on Thursday, September 5. Created and performed by Daisey with direction by Jean-Michele Gregory, ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON will run for 29 unique, consecutive performances through Thursday, October 3 at Joe's Pub, with an official opening on Wednesday, September 11. Each night Daisey will be joined onstage by one of 29 oil paintings commissioned and created for this show by the Russian artist Larissa Tokmakova, illustrating and illuminating the story he's telling.

Mike Daisey returns to The Public with a breathtakingly epic theatrical event: a story told over the course of a lunar month, a new monologue every night, in 29 unique, consecutive performances. Each evening stands alone as a single episode, but together they create a living theatrical novel set against the secret history of New York City-a city that is loved and loathed and larger than life. From Pentecostal church services held in IKEA showrooms to Nikola Tesla's laboratories in the Lower East Side, from the infamous Mole People's convocations deep beneath the subway lines to the hidden and terrifying plans of Robert Moses, Daisey weaves a story of ordinary magic in a most extraordinary city. Night after night he will strive like Scheherazade to tell the largest story ever attempted in the American theater.

"We are proud to welcome Mike back to The Public and delighted to engage with him in solving the challenges and pleasures of creating this unique event," said Artistic Director Oskar Eustis.

"I'm tremendously excited how with this project we're breaking the boundaries of what theater is today. Not just in the epic scale of this piece, but in how people will be able to hear and connect with the work over the internet, and by the bringing visual art directly into the heart of the theater," said Mike Daisey. "The Public has been a wonderful home for our work in New York City for many years, and we're absolutely delighted to premiere this work here."

Single tickets, priced at $25, can be purchased by calling (212) 967-7555, www.publictheater.org or in person at The Taub Box Office at 425 Lafayette Street. Tickets are $20 for Public Theater members. Audience members who purchase tickets to multiple performances will receive special gifts that include limited edition prints of the artworks, specially printed books with Mike Daisey's notes and making-of materials, invitations to special parties, and much more. Full details are available at www.publictheater.org.

Titles of each of the 29 monologues are as follows:

Sept 5 - Playing the Hand You're Dealt
Sept 6 - The Fool Who Walks Through Walls
Sept 7 - The Magician and the Fish
Sept 8 - She's the High Priestess to You, Jack
Sept 9 - Mercury Is a Messenger Who Will Not Wait
Sept 10 - The Empress Holds Her Cards Close
Sept 11 - The Naked Emperor Is Still Laughing
Sept 12 - Venus Is a Star Who Gets What She Wants
Sept 13 - The Hierophant Plays It Loose
Sept 14 - The Lovers Struggle To Take What They Want
Sept 15 - Your Chariot Awaits, My Sweet
Sept 16 - Mars Is a Soldier Whose Hands Are Red
Sept 17 - That Hideous Strength
Sept 18 - The Hermit Stands at the Turn of the River
Sept 19 - This Is How We Make Our Fortune
Sept 20 - Our Justice Runs on a Tilted Table
Sept 21 - Jupiter Is a King Who Never Came Back
Sept 22 - A Hanged Man Knows How To Bluff
Sept 23 - The Untitled
Sept 24 - Temperance Under the Gun
Sept 25 - The Devil Always Plays to a Draw
Sept 26 - Paying the Rent in the Tower of Song
Sept 27 - Saturn Is a Father Devouring His Children
Sept 28 - If You Wish Upon a Star You Will Regret It
Sept 29 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Sept 30 - The Sun Is a Blind and Burning Thing
Oct 1 - A Flaw in Your Judgment
Oct 2 - The World Is More Than We Will Ever Know
Oct 3 - Last Call

Audiences can experience these performances live, and also follow online by listening to the free podcast as the story unfolds. Links to the audio from the previous night's performance will be available at www.publictheater.org at 12:00 p.m. each day.

Mike Daisey (Creator and Performer), hailed as "the master storyteller" by The New York Times, is the preeminent monologist in the American theater today. He has been compared to a modern-day Mark Twain for his provocative monologues that combine the political and the personal, weaving secret histories with hilarity and heart. As a playwright, his transcript of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was downloaded over 100,000 times the first week it was made available. Under a revolutionary open license it has seen more than eighty productions around the world and been translated into six languages. He has performed across five continents, from Off-Broadway to remote islands in the South Pacific, from the Sydney Opera House to abandoned theatres in post-Communist Tajikistan. He's been a commentator and contributor to The New York Times, WIRED, Vanity Fair, Slate, Salon, NPR and the BBC, as well as a guest on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Real Time with Bill Maher." He has been nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award and two Drama League Awards, and is the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, five Seattle Times Footlight Awards, the Sloan Foundation's Galileo Prize and a MacDowell Fellowship. He will premiere The Secret War, a monologue about three men who were driven to reveal secrets: Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and Daniel Ellsberg, in an examination of how we all keep secrets and the price we pay for them, this fall in theaters across America.

Photo by: Sabrina Fonseca