Mike Daisey’s Month-Long Monologue Series All the Faces of the Moon Reveals Titles, Topics at Public Theater

Monologist Mike Daisey is about to embark on a one-of-a-kind theatrical event—and you have 29 chances to experience it! On September 5, Daisey begins performances of All the Faces on the Moon, a new series of monologues telling “the largest story ever attempted in the American theater” (according to press notes) over the course of a lunar month.

Daisey will deliver a new monologue every night in 29 unique, consecutive performances. The project, directed by Jean-Michele Gregory, will run from September 5 through October 3, with an official opening on September 11. For each performance, Daisey will share the stage with one of 29 oil paintings commissioned especially for the show by Russian artist Larissa Tokmakova, each one illustrating the story du jour. Check out the titles of each of the 29 monologues below:

September 5 — Playing the Hand You’re Dealt
September 6 — The Fool Who Walks Through Walls
September 7 — The Magician and the Fish
September 8 — She’s the High Priestess to You, Jack
September 9 — Mercury Is a Messenger Who Will Not Wait
September 10 — The Empress Holds Her Cards Close
September 11 — The Naked Emperor Is Still Laughing
September 12 — Venus Is a Star Who Gets What She Wants
September 13 — The Heirophant Plays It Loose
September 14 — The Lovers Struggle To Take What They Want
September 15 — Your Chariot Awaits, My Sweet
September 16 — Mars Is a Soldier Whose Hands Are Red
September 17 — That Hideous Strength
September 18 — The Hermit Stands at the Turn of the River
September 19 — This Is How We Make Our Fortune
September 20 — Our Justice Runs on a Tilted Table
September 21 — Jupiter Is a King Who Never Came Back
September 22 — A Hanged Man Knows How To Bluff
September 23 — The Untitled
September 24 — Temperance Under the Gun
September 25 — The Devil Always Plays to a Draw
September 26 — Paying the Rent in the Tower of Song
September 27 — Saturn Is a Father Devouring His Children
September 28 — If You Wish Upon a Star You Will Regret It
September 29 — The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
September 30 — The Sun Is a Blind and Burning Thing
October 1 — A Flaw in Your Judgment
October 2 — The World Is More Than We Will Ever Know
October 3 — Last Call

Daisey is one of theater’s preeminent monologists, creating over 15 classics including The Last Cargo Cult, How Theater Failed America, All the Hours in the Day and All Stories Are Fiction. Daisey’s most recent endeavor at the Public Theater was the controversial The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, in which Daisey was accused of fabricating material about working conditions inside Apple’s Chinese factories.