Sunday, January 15, 2012
theater Monologuist Mike Daisey continues to shed light on Apple
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- Courtesy of Mike Daisey
- Workers at an electronics factory in Shenzhen, China.
In early 2011, Daisey's show continues to go on. On Sunday the 8th, "The American Life" devoted the entirety of its running time to an extended excerpt from the monologue under the Willy Wonka-style title "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory." Daisey wrote a piece for This American Life's web site about the process, which includes this amusing observation:
There is also the matter of my language. I speak onstage with unrestricted language, or as the Puritans like to say, curse words. I use profanity to punctuate, to turn on a dime in tone and tenor—it’s essential. So a lot of thought went into stripping out profanity…it wasn’t just changing the word “shit” to “crap” so there wouldn’t be a BEEP, but rather figuring out when the word “fuck” should remain, knowing it would be covered by a BEEP, and trying to compose the sentence so that the BEEP worked well—if one is going to be censored (which is exactly what this is, let’s be clear), it’s important to control the context, so that you can extract the best results from the BEEP placement.
And on his Facebook page on Friday, Jan. 13, Daisey celebrated Apple's disclosure of working conditions at its factories as "a concrete example of how public pressure and human voices can move the needle."
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