Monday, March 22, 2004

Remembering Spalding

Remembering Spalding Gray is written by Mark Russell and appears in the Village Voice. Here's a bit:
Spalding opened the door for hundreds of artists to make live events out of their own experience; he gave permission for the theater of Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Dael Orlandersmith, and so many others. It was a theater of identity - personal politics - a way to unearth stories that had not been told.

Now we take the solo performance form as a fact, but Spalding was the original. The master. Sliding down his own slippery slope of a life, taking us with him.

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