Swimming to Cambodia
Today In Theatre History: MARCH 7
...10 in what will be ruled a suicide. On March 9, Broadway theatres will dim their lights to salute the author of Swimming to Cambodia, A Slipperly Slope, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy and...
Spalding Gray
...unadorned sets with a dry, WASP , quiet mania." Gray achieved celebrity for writing and acting in the play Swimming to Cambodia, adapted into a film in 1987. He began his career in...
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Laurie Anderson
...U.S. national debt and the arts scene. Some of the music used in these productions came from her soundtrack of Swimming to Cambodia. The PSAs were frequently shown between music videos...
Jon Blair
In 1991 Blair produced and his company made its first feature, "Monster in a Box", Spalding Gray's sequel to "Swimming to Cambodia". In 1994 Blair was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by...
The Killing Fields (film)
...films list. In 1986, actor Spalding Gray, who had a small role in the movie as the American consul, created Swimming to Cambodia, an acclaimed monologue (later filmed by Jonathan...
Review of Mike Daisey's 'Last Cargo Cult' at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
The approach is very similar to that of the pioneering monologuist, the late Spalding Gray, known for "Swimming to Cambodia." Where Gray's tales -- recited from behind the same kind of...
Film: One Singular Auteur, Through Another
...stream of consciousness himself when he saw Jonathan Demme's 1987 film of Gray's best-known monologue, "Swimming to Cambodia. " "When I saw 'Swimming,' I had the sensation that I assume...
Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 9
It will go on to run 54 performances. 2004 Obie-winning monologuist Spalding Gray, author of Swimming to Cambodia, Sex and Death to Age 14, Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy,...
"And Everything Is Going Fine," is lifted from a comment Gray repeated like a refrain during one of his performances and reflects the way all of his monologues immediately plunge you into a drama in process. "I looked at his work as a stream that you can step into at any moment and sort of get what's going on," Mr. Soderbergh said. He said he stepped into Gray's stream of consciousness himself when he saw Jonathan Demme's 1987 film of Gray's best-known monologue, "Swimming to Cambodia. "
Film: One Singular Auteur, Through Another International Herald Tribune - Culture | 2 months ago
Monster in a Box
...1992 film starring Spalding Gray and directed by Nick Broomfield. A follow-up to Gray's earlier work, Swimming to Cambodia, the work consists of a long-form monologue by Gray detailing the...
Lian Amaris
...directed by Richard Schechner); a monologue about the artist's personal journey inspired by Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, performed at the HERE Arts Center Fashionably Late...
Jonathan Demme
...Demme started making documentary films, making a notable series of concert films with Stop Making Sense and Swimming to Cambodia. In 1991, Demme won the Academy Award for ''The...
Swimming to Spalding
Riffing on the late monologuist Spalding Gray's seminal "Swimming to Cambodia" is an ambitious-and some might say foolhardy-undertaking. Initially, it seems that writer-performer Lian...
