America's "talking man" dropped by The Gate's offices recently to, well, talk.
Spaulding Gray
was in town to perform his acclaimed monologue about learning to ski in
the midst of an emotional meltdown -- "It's a Slippery Slope" (reviewed
by the Chronicle and Examiner). He looked exactly as he looks on stage:
neat checkered shirt, billowy silver hair, playful eyes. Over the last
two decades the motor-mouthed New Englander has chronicled his life in
15 monologues (Including "Swimming to Cambodia," "Monster in a Box," and
"Gray's Anatomy") and elevated autobiographical storytelling to a high
art. He is already at work on monologue number 16 about one day in his
life in Sag Harbor, Long Island where he currently lives with his sons
Forrest and Theo and their mother Kathie.--JC Jeanne Carstensen: Is it true that you're claustrophobic? I've heard that. So I thought, my god, I'm going to put him in this little room...
Spalding Gray: I've had attacks of claustrophobia, but this room wouldn't bring one on. This is still a big room to me. I've probably had two or three of them in my life. (More)
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