Christopher Chen’s inspiration for his play “Caught” was the fracas over Mike Daisey fabricating details in his one-man play about Chinese factory workers, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Chen started piecing together topics that excited him and every scene negates the one before. “Caught” is likened to a set of Russian nesting dolls where there’s always another layer hidden underneath.
Key Takeaways:
- The brouhaha over Mike Daisey, who admitted to fabricating details in his one-man play about Chinese factory workers, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” led to a humbling backlash
- It has also inspired another play: “Caught,” by the San Francisco writer Christopher Chen.
- Since 2014, “Caught” has been produced in Philadelphia, Chicago, London and, this spring, Seattle, where The Stranger, an alternative weekly, named it one of the best plays of the year.
“”Watching ‘Caught’ should be like opening up ‘a Russian doll,’ according to the play’s director…””
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