Riding the Wave.com

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Brooklyn, 1998: After a stock tip about tech company Wave Systems, Jonathan Mirin’s life as a young actor turns upside down. From falling in love in Switzerland to living with Sudanese refugees in Athens to an Indian pilgrimmage, he rides a financial & spiritual wave in this autobiographical tragicomedy nominated for a 2004 Independent Reviewers of New England Award for "Best Solo Performance, Small Company."

The Piti Theatre Company is proud to present Riding the Wave.com - a solo performance by Jonathan Mirin and directed by Jason Grossman. Following its world premiere at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival, the show has been featured in the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune and other publications.

Despite living in New York in the late 90's, Jonathan Mirin had never seriously considered investing - primarily because he assumed it required money to invest. But after receiving a tip from a 'Wavoid' (a member of the online chatroom community who would help propel Wave's stock from less than a dollar to 50) he decided to bet $400 on Wave. By the spring of 2000, his "portfolio" had soared . . .

I ask Jerry: "Why would Intel or Microsoft let Wave Systems make
all that money?" He looks at me with the soft brown
eyes of a momma cow for her placenta-covered calf and says: "The
gorillas have no choice because Wave has all the patents."
PAT-TENTS PAT-TENTS PAT-TENTS rings like a dinner bell in my ear and it
occurs to me that this New York school teacher might be right and I may
be a very, very lucky boy. So I take my first little step and ask: "If
I was going to . . . how would I?" 

What do you do after you lose everything? Westerners of a particular stripe have had one consistent answer since the sixties: travel to India in search of enlightenment. But Mirin had actually started learning a meditation technique called vipassana before his departure.

Riding the Wave.com condenses three tumultuous years into a one hour tale of the greed, fear and hope which drove the tech boom. The story also weaves together quests for spiritual understanding and romantic love as they collide with Mirin's financial saga. The audience is guided through multiple settings - a meditation center in Switzerland, a ferry from Venice to Greece, a train from Bombay to North India - with the aid of two benches, a stool and theatre's imaginative possibilities.

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