Speakeasy: Mike Daisey just can’t appease his critics

Published July 19, 2012 4:00am ET



“For a certain branch of people, the only satisfying conclusion to this narrative arc would be if I died.”

– Performer Mike Daisey, who edited material out of his one-man play “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” after admitting it was fabricated. A public uproar ensued after NPR’s “This American Life” retracted an episode about his show in March, which contained fake details about the production of Apple products in China. Daisey has continued to draw fire as his show begins a three-week reprise at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in D.C.

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