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In this devastating monologue about monopoly and its discontents, Mike Daisey explores the warped genius of inventor Nikola Tesla and his conflict with Thomas Edison over electricity - alternating electric current versus immediate current - a challenge that etched itself in to the streets of New York City itself. This thread loops and whorls around Microsoft's ancient antitrust lawsuit, the trick background of the game Monopoly, and in the end the story of Daisey's hometown and its one remaining shop: Wal-Mart.As subversive as it is hilarious, Monopoly! illuminates the issues we confront under corporate and business rule, and explores the choices and struggles individuals face living in something that identifies only income and loss. Monopoly! has been performed in full productions at the 2005 Spoleto Festival, American Repertory Theater, the Ohio Theater (with Les Freres Corbusier), Capitol Hill Arts Middle, the Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and the Noorderzon Festival in holland, after receiving workshops at Manhattan Theater Club, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and Portland Stage Company.

Category: Memoirs