The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs Play Summary

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is a theater production written by Mike Daisey, an American monologist, and directed by Andrew Gallant. The play was produced by Triton College and involved actors from Triton College. I attended the play on Sunday, February 26th. The playwright and the director attempted to show the adversity of the workers that worked in a factory that manufactures Apple products, and displaying the unsafe conditions they had to work in. The actors were telling a story of how people who worked in the factory were committing suicide by climbing up the large buildings and jumping off, and they explain that the company's way of solving this problem was to put up nets to catch them when they fall. Another example of the mistreatment of the workers is the playwright suggested that many factory workers had died from long shifts. Also the playwright attempted to show how Steve Jobs really was, and what his company and others thought of him. The playwright wanted to show the relationship Steve Jobs had with his company and show how much of a visionary he was. The play explained that he was kicked out of his company; the company then went under and begged for Steve Jobs to come back and save them. The playwright wanted to show the
The play explained that the many of the factory workers at Foxconn, a company that manufactures Apple products, moved out of their small town to the city where they got jobs at Foxxcon, where they live in tiny apartments and work long hours on tedious tasks. Many of them have degrees and leave their homes in hopes to make money that will change their lives for the better. The use of this story about the workers does really make the audience feel for them and think twice about what products they buy, and ways they can help make changes to things like