A Spalding Gray Matter
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 27, 2005
Closed Jun 11, 2005

Playing at
CSV Flamboyan Theater

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Breedingground Productions' Spring Fever Festival 2005 presents the world premiere of A Spalding Gray Matter, written and performed by Michael Brandt, and directed by Ian Morgan.

This unique new play explores the curious story of Spalding Gray's illness, disappearance, and assumed suicide through the eerily parallel events of the author's own experience. Using the theatrical structure of Gray's monologues, Michael seeks to understand what happened to Spalding Gray as a way of understanding what is happening to himself, and vice versa. The result is an intimate, confessional environment for a gripping story about the consequences of illness on the human psyche.

Schedule

Fridays: May 27, June 3, June 10 @ 7:30pm
Sundays: May 29, June 5 @ 1:30pm
Saturday: June 11 @ 3:00pm

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

CSV Flamboyan Theater
107 Suffolk St
New York, NY 10002

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

No, you do not have to have seen Spalding Gray's monologues to enjoy Michael Brandt's A Spalding Gray Matter. In fact, Brandt himself was just barely familiar with Gray's work in 2001, the year that he found events in his life paralleling those of the late writer-performer, best known for Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box.

During that fateful year, while vacationing in Ireland, Gray was in a car accident that left him severely injured. Brandt, for his part, developed a case of pneumonia -- misdiagnosed as a simple cold -- that caused one of his lungs to fill entirely with fluid and two of his major organs to fail. In A Spalding Gray Matter, Brandt tells of the severe depression that[...]

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Reviewed by Adam Klasfeld on May 8, 2006