Review: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Adam Feldman
October 18, 2011: In The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Mike Daisey takes a bite out of Apple, chews on it and spits it out as a two-hour monologue. If you’ve seen this master monologuist before, you know that he likes to mix things up—not just by weaving parallel stories in counterpoint, but also by shifting among various modes of discourse, from calm ratiocination to bursts of rage. But the latter mode seems to occupy a larger share of his latest piece than is usually the case: The disillusionment of this self-described “Apple fanboy” with his favorite tech company spurs him to profane fits of righteous apoplexy, in which the line between storytelling and story-yelling isn’t always thick.
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