"It took courage to do what Spalding did-courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts-my heart-because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life."-Eric Bogosian "Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding ...
In the grip of a debilitating depression he couldn't shake, Spalding Gray killed himself in 2004. He left behind a monologue-in-progress about the automobile accident in Ireland that plunged him into depression, which is the heart of this volume--a testimony to his ability, even in the midst of horror, to make his life into art. In addition, the ...
In middle age Spalding Gray has entered "the Bermuda Triangle of Health", that place where the body begins to break down in alarming and humiliating ways. His immediate problem is an eye complaint that could be corrected with minor surgery. But for the high priest of high anxiety, nothing is ever minor. And so Gray embarks on a crazed crusade for ...
All Brewster wanted was a vacation, but he wouldn't give himself a break. On a Rhode Island beach, aged six, he has a vision of Bali that haunts him still. Racked with guilt over his mother's suicide, Brewster wanders aimlessly, confounded by life's choices. By the author of "Monster in a Box".
The pioneering monologuist and performance artist Gray turns domestic in this work about moving in with his girlfriend, raising their baby, and generally puttering around town like a dad after years of the rake's life.
This is a collection of six monologues by the master of one-man drama. Included are "Sex and Death at the Age of 14, " "Booze, Cars, and College Girls, " "47 Beds, " "Nobody Wanted to Sit Behind a Desk, " "Travels through New England, " and "Terror of Pleasure: The House." Also includes a preface by the author.
This long-awaited monologue by Gray has been performed to the applause of sell-out crowds and the accolades of critics in New York, Los Angeles, and beyond. Appearing here in book form for the first time, with a new afterword, Monster in a Box will be released as a feature film in 1992.
Gray's monologues are an American treasure, giving voice to our unspoken fears and ambitions. This time he takes on the shattering experience of trying to own a home, telling the story of "the little house that cried".
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