Ellen Thorpe, ArtERY live: Edinburgh Village Hall 2012

Name of company	Mike Daisey
Name of show	The Agony & Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Genre	Theatre
Venue	Gilded Balloon
Date	26.8.12

Review My second trip to EF finished with a flourish …sort of …. The presentation of The Agony & Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was a cross between lecture and stand up and gave lots and lots of facts to explore the world of Apple, linking it graphically to the industrialisation of China and the fact that Apple, for all it’s fine design – and don’t we all love it – is part of the massive electronic production in Chengdu.  The plant producing Apple products also produces ‘half of all the world’s electronic goods’ – from phones to washing machines and yes for the whole world!  The factory is owned by Foxcomm, a Taiwanese company, employing million people!  The production methods – where Apple products are made by hand because labour is cheap – is quite extraordinary and exploitative.  It’s a story of capitalism and industrialisation, except the industrialisation we know of is in history books and in China today it is accelerated and is on a scale greater than has ever been in the developed world.  The figure are staggering and hard to comprehend.  This monologue is created to make you think, and invites you to campaign to ensure companies like Apple don’t continue to exploit workers.  It reminds consumers they have power to effect change at Apple.   The Agony & Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is by Mike Daisey and performed by Grant O’Rouke and directed by Marcus Roche

Why is the work suitable or not suitable / ready for rural touring ?	No suitable.
Why would you book them ?  or  Why wouldn’t you book them ?	No.
Why would it be worth pursuing this company to consider work in the future? Or not  ?	No