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He’s been called the Mark Twain of his generation, but the writing career of Spalding Gray (1941-2004) was actually a fairly late development. Gray’s credentials in experimental theater, however, were always impeccable. An active member of the now-legendary Performance Group in the ’60s, Gray wrote several plays for the Wooster Group in the ’70s. He also performed a series of monologues with such titles as “Sex and Death to the Age 14,” “Booze, Cars and College Girls,” and “A Personal History of the American Theater.” Swinging madly from hilarious anecdotes to searing private confessions, these monologues have established Gray as one of the great storytellers of his generation. In 1983, Gray was given a bit part in the film The Killing Fields. Predictably, the result was another monologue, this one titled “Swimming to Cambodia.” A wild, rollercoaster ride through the whorehouses, hotels and back alleys of Thailand, with frequent ruminations on sex, drugs,…
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