The question is not whether there will be a play about Steve Jobs, but if it will have a bigger audience than the unveiling of the iPad. It won't, but at least the monologue will be performed by Mike Daisey, who looks decidedly more Chris Farley than an awkward Jobs. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs posits the brain behind Apple as a modern day Willy Wonka "whose personal obsessions profoundly affect our everyday lives." It will also make light of the company's factories in China, a technological twist Daisey got experience exploiting in his production of 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com The question is not whether there will be a play about Steve Jobs, but if it will have a bigger audience than the unveiling of the iPad. It won’t, but at least the monologue will be performed by Mike Daisey, who looks decidedly more Chris Farley than an awkward Jobs. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs posits the brain behind Apple as a modern day Willy Wonka “whose personal obsessions profoundly affect our everyday lives.” It will also make light of the company’s factories in China, a technological twist Daisey got experience exploiting in his production of 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com. The show will run from January 14 through February 27 of 2011 at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, so we’re sure to be reading the playbill on our iPads as Jobs remains in hiding an hour away.
