After winning the Audience Choice award at this year’s FRIGID Fest, New York storyteller Martin Dockery reunites with Mike Daisey’s longtime director and collaborator Jean-Michele Gregory (How Theater Failed America, If You See Something Say Something, Wanderlust) to create a new theatrical monologue that takes us through the ruins of Angkor Wat and the chaos of bustling Saigon, as startling revelations force him to question what it means to be a family, and what remains when foundations crumble.
Selected for this year’s soloNOVA Festival, The Surprise is the true and comic story of an uncertain girlfriend, an enigmatic father, and a most epic game of emotional chicken. Told with equal parts humor and heart, it is the tale of a family rife with secrets, and clueless as to how to reveal them.
