Performance artist Daisey disrupted by alleged Christians

Monologist Mike Daisey has posted video and a written post detailing how members of a "Christian group," as he describes them, disrupted his one-man show in Boston last week and poured water on written notes he uses in the performance. (Note--Daisey does use the "f" work, so if that offends you or your boss, don't watch the video.)

You really have to see it to believe it. Daisey is obviously stunned beyond belief, but manages to challenge the cowards to stay and talk about why they did it. Naturally they didn't.

Seattle fans may recall this Seattlest interview with Daisey prior to a scheduled February, 2007 performance.

Props to The News Blog, which offered this question:

However, I can't help but wonder what the result would be if 80 performance artists all attended a Church service, and got up in the middle of Mass and destroyed the alter as a sort of performance art.

I'll tell you what would happen: it would be live on all the cable networks for a week.

I've searched in vain using Goggle news for anyone claiming responsibility for this act. These people just exhibited some serious "warning signs," and authorities would be foolish to "ignore them." 'Cause I don't know any sane people who would think it's right to go to the theater and throw water on someone's work, not say anything and then walk out. That is severely anti-social behavior.

Perhaps the most chilling aspect is this comparison Daisey makes:

I sat behind the table, looking up in his face with shock. My job onstage is to be as open as possible, to weave the show without a script as it comes, and this leaves me very emotionally available--and vulnerable, if an audience chooses to abuse that trust. I doubt I will ever forget the look in his face as he defaced the only original of the handwritten show outline--it was a look of hatred, and disgust, and utter and consuming pride.

It is a face I have seen in Riefenstahl's work, and in my dreams, but never on another human face, never an arm's length from me--never directed at me, hating me, hating my words and the story that I've chosen to tell. That face is not Christian, by any definition Christ would be proud to call his own--its naked righteousness and contempt have nothing to do with the godhead, and everything to do with pathetic human pride at its very worst.

Sad. This the face of theocracy.