Mike Daisey enters the stage at Joe's Pub and lays down a suspicious package. By the end of the monologist's act, we'll know what's in it, and it may engender an ethical dilemma amongst some audience members for a show that ironically uses the MTA's vigilance advertising campaign slogan as its title: If You See Something Say Something. The uneasiness evoked by Daisey's revelation just adds to the impact of his latest solo show, which is a provocative, educational, and entertaining examination of post-9/11 America, and the "language of security" that defines it.

There are two primary threads that Daisey follows within the piece: his own journey to the Trinity Site at White Sands Missile Ran[...]