Mike Daisey’s BRADLEY MANNING’S WAR

OUR FINAL SHOW at the Public this season, and I could not be more excited—Manning, Wikileaks, Assange, the media, and all our roles in the story of our times. See this one—I don’t know when we’ll be back in NYC again.

Bradley Manning’s War

Created and Performed by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory

Tickets: http://bit.ly/16vdtTI

The final piece in Mike Daisey explosion of new work this season, Bradley Manning’s War is about Private First Class Bradley Manning, who was held for over a thousand days and nights before being arraigned on charges of treason against the United States of America. An incredibly polarizing figure, he’s reviled by some as a traitor, credited by others as having been the catalyst for the Arab Spring, despised for aiding and abetting enemy combatants, and celebrated as a hero and whistleblower. He is an enigmatic figure who has cast a long shadow across the world during his imprisonment, used as a tool and symbol by many different sides. For a single night we will try to find the human story of Mr. Manning, and attempt to understand his war, and all of our roles in it.

“A monologuist who always threatens to burst out of his chosen form—funny, literate and provocative.”
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Sharp-witted, passionately delivered talk about matters both small and huge, at once utterly individual and achingly universal.”
—BOSTON GLOBE

“The master storyteller—one of the finest solo performers of his generation.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Daisey’s skill is that he is able to talk about the historical and make it human, the personal and make it universal, so that the listener is both informed and transformed.”
—PAPER MAGAZINE

“A charismatic performer, his shows have the insightful hostility of the best comedy.”
—THE NEW YORKER

“Mike Daisey is funny, earnest, wonderful company and so smart he’d burn holes in the ground if he wasn’t wearing shoes— he is an artist that the American theater needs, and one we would be lost without.”
—OSKAR EUSTIS, Artistic Director of The Public Theater

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