Synopses & Reviews
With daring virtuosity, writer-actor-performance artist Spalding Gray takes us on an odyssey for our time a dizzy escapade swerving and plunging between outrageous hilarity and chilling revelation stretching all the way from Gulf of Siam to poolside Beverly Hills. Inspired by his experiences acting in the Academy Award-winning film
The Killing Fields, master storyteller Gray has enthralled audiences from coast to coast and in Europe with his solo performances of
Swimming to Cambodia.
Now this major voice from the American theatre avant-garde becomes a major voice in American literature as his newest, most ambitious work appears for the first time complete in print. And now readers can join his large, loyal theatre following on his quest for the ever elusive Perfect Moment, in the last days of the twentieth century.
Review
"Gary zigzags through his far-flung adventures with the speed and agility of an Indy 500 driver on the San Diego Freeway." Don Shewey, Village Voice
Review
"His art is almost closer to that of a magician. Gary draws a graceful, sometimes invisible line from the primal to the avant-garde." Jack Viertel, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Description
Grays most popular and provocative monologue, drawn from his experiences acting in the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields, later inspired a movie of its own directed by Jonathan Demme.
About the Author
A founding member of New Yorks premiere experimental theatre troupe, the Wooster Group, Gray is internationally lauded as one of the worlds most engaging storytellers.