Swimming to Cambodia

Master story teller Spalding Gray has taken Goodman audiences on the wild coaster ride that has been his life for nearly 20 years through his series of facinating autobiographical monologues. Gray returns to the Goodman with perhaps his best known monologue, Swimming To Cambodia, which he first performed in Chicago in 1985. Gray created ‘Swimming’ after working eight weeks in Thailland on the Academy award-winning film, The Killing
Fields, in which he portrayed an assistant to the American Consul in Cambodia. With only a desk, a glass of water and a few maps, Gray takes audiences through the history of the American bombing of Cambodia, explores the amazing entertainments of Bangkok’s nightclubs, goes on his search for the “perfect moment”, and finally to Hollywood, which he hires an agent and auditions for a TV sit-com.