On Monday I went to see a reading of a one-man show called “If You See Something Say Something” by Park Slope’s Mike Daisey at the Public Theater (it will be there in the fall).

In this new monologue, Daisey weaves together the story of the Department of Homeland Security, the story of the neutron bomb and his own trip to Los Alamos to see the Trinity, the site where the first atom bomb was detonated (the site is open one day a year for the public to see). He’s quite a storyteller.

I was amazed at how large a crowd assembled to see this free work-in-progress performance at Joe’s Pub on a Monday at noon. Mike Daisey must have quite an email list.

The piece is very powerful, very disturbing, very well told. I can’t wait to see it again in the fall when it’s at the Public Theater. I expect it will change quite a a bit before then. He is performing it this week at the Wooly Mammoth Theater in Washington, DC.