Moon #23:  “Saturn is a Father Devouring his Children” *SPOILERS* “There is something about being that kind of person, wanting to engage in that way, that makes it hard to get in touch with the artistic side of yourself because you want to fight.  You know, you want to fight because you think there are things that matter.  It’s not as artsy to fight.” In … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 23

Moon #22:  “Paying the Rent in the Tower of Song” *SPOILERS* “We don’t need a fiction, we tell ourselves.  We don’t need a story to change anything.  What could a story show us that is not inside us already?  And the answer is nothing.  A story cannot show you anything that is not inside you already.  You carry within you every part of every story … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 22

Moon #21:  “The Devil Always Plays to a Draw” *SPOILERS* “It’s a strange thing, the way the game is played.  You can’t really win.  We never really win a chess game.  People don’t really think about this.  You play chess until you have checkmated the king.  Until the other king cannot move, until the other king would be taken.  You play the game until and … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 21

Moon #20:  “Temperance Under the Gun” *SPOILERS* “This is a story about the nature of stories.  So if it ever gets a little bit meta… have another drink!” You might notice a line bisecting Episode Twenty of Mike Daisey’s All the Faces of the Moon. It’s the line between the fictional and the “not fake”; between telling the future and making it; and between devils … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 20

Moon #19:  “The Untitled” *SPOILERS* “We use fiction that way.  We tell a story to animate the past.  All our ghosts live that way.  We breathe our life into them and they surge to life every time.  And that’s the act of knowing them.  It’s a great magic.  It’s a great magic we all possess.” The quote above is meant literally with regards to Jack, … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 19

Moon #18:  “A Hanged Man Knows How to Bluff” *SPOILERS* “There’s something in me that’s hard and insoluble and a little bitchy and just difficult.  And I think it’s that part, that part that won’t negotiate, that pushed my wife out of the zeppelin.” Mike Daisey’s 29-part monologue, All the Faces of the Moon, has offered wildly unexpected plot turns and genre blending brilliance all … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 18

Moon #17:  “Jupiter is a King Who Never Came Back” *SPOILERS* “This is precisely why I get a little tired of people not understanding what I mean by ‘secret histories.’  Because you don’t need to be a conspiracist; you can just open your fucking eyes.  I remember reading those reports.  I read all those fucking reports.  I remember thinking, this seems reasonable.  This seems terribly … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 17

Moon #16:  “Our Justice Runs on a Tilted Table” *SPOILERS* “The world’s gonna end.  It has before.  It ends all the time.” Episode Sixteen of Mike Daisey’s twenty-nine-part theatrical novel, All the Faces of the Moon, finally begins to pull back the curtain on some of the larger mysteries of the storyteller’s wonderfully bizarre narrative.  Daisey unpacks the mystical explosion in Zuccotti Park and the … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 16

Moon #15:  “This is How We Make Our Fortune” *SPOILERS* “Tonight’s the night.” Mike Daisey opens the fifteenth episode of All the Faces of the Moon with a consideration of the Moon itself, which on the night of this performance (September 18, 2013) was full.  A Harvest Moon.  The production was meticulously scheduled around the 29-day cycle of the Moon so that here – at … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 15

Moon #14:  “The Hermit Stands at the Turn of the River” *SPOILERS* “History hangs around our neck like a noose.  We’re beholden to every decision we’ve ever made.  We’re beholden to who we are.  We have the cards we were given.  We come from the place we came from.  We are who we are.  And yet.  And yet within that game so much is possible.” … Continue reading REVIEW: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON PART 14