Do you happen to be free every night for the next few weeks? Because that’s the only way you can catch all of “All the Faces of the Moon,” monologuist Mike Daisey’s latest piece, live at Joe’s Pub. He’s performing it in installments over 29 nights of the current lunar cycle — but if you’ve missed the first few, you can catch up via free podcasts.
Daisey’s no stranger to such stunts. Best known for shows including “How Theater Failed America” and “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” — more on that later — his new piece is a sequel of sorts to a 24-hour monologue he performed in Portland, Ore., two years ago, titled “All the Hours in the Day.”
Even so, with this latest piece, the 40-year-old seems bent on becoming the David Blaine of monologuists.
“I think this is as ridiculous as I could have possibly made things for myself and still hopefully manage to pull everything together,” he says. “So far it’s going all right.”
His aim is to have each roughly 90-minute evening stand alone as a separate episode, while at the same time weaving them together to create a colorful, complex tapestry that’s at times deeply personal.
“It’s a large, magical portrait of the New York City that is a mythological New York City and the New York City that could be,” says Daisey, who lives in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens. “It talks about the tangible city that I live in, and what it’s meant to me and how I feel that it’s at a crossroads.”
And he didn’t write it out beforehand.
“This monologue, like all the monologues I’ve ever done, isn’t scripted at all,” he says. “It’s created extemporaneously. You can feel how it’s being forged as it’s spoken . . . There are times when I don’t know what to say next.”
This time, he’s added a multimedia element: Larissa Tokmakova’s paintings, based on tarot cards — a different one for each play. They tie into his story about visiting a fortune teller in “Playing the Hand You’re Dealt.”
Like all his shows for the last decade or so, “Moon” is directed by his wife, Jean-Michele Gregory. The couple met while performing “an extremely bad German expressionist play” in Seattle.
“There’s no division between the home life and the work life,” he says. “It’s all woven together.”
Last year Daisey got into hot water when NPR revealed that elements of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” about the harsh conditions suffered by workers at Apple’s factory complex in China, were fabricated. The media roasted him, and it’s clear he’s still hurting.
“I have thoughts and feelings about it,” he says, guardedly. “I’ve been very public about them. I apologized fully and completely. I revised my work, and continued to perform it in its revised form that was 100-percent fact-checkable. And I gave it away for free.”
For now, he says, he’s concentrating on his “Moon” marathon, and how he might top it. “I’m following all these natural rhythms,” he says. ” ‘All the Hours in the Day’ was set by the Earth’s rotation. ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ is set by the rotation of the moon around the Earth. So the next one would naturally be ‘All the Days of the Year.’
“I’m not saying I’m doing it,” he adds hastily. “I don’t want to even think about how that would work.”
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St. Tickets, $25, at 212-967-7555 or publictheater.org. Through Oct. 3.