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Spalding Gray and Sedge Thomson radio conversations: "I'm Beginning to Doubt My Doubt"

From: Sedge Thomson
Length: 50:05

The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future. Read the full description.

Default-piece-image-1 Spalding Gray, the monologist, was a regular guest on Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live. Spalding's works about his life - including from "Swimming to Cambodia" to "Morning, Noon, and Night" and "Monster in a Box" -- became the model for younger monologists and even radio producers. These interviews are from broadcasts in 1998, 1999 and 2001 before a theater audience. The talks cover his art, the craft of acting, the melding of personal and public personas, the accident in Ireland that led to his depression, and of the love he found through his family, and the command to "always wear your seatbelt!" These mandelbrots of conversation were produced as a single program to present as a tribute to Spalding.

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Spalding Gray, the monologist, was a regular guest on Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live. Spalding's works about his life - including from "Swimming to Cambodia" to "Morning, Noon, and Night" and "Monster in a Box" -- became the model for younger monologists and even radio producers. These interviews are from broadcasts in 1998, 1999 and 2001 before a theater audience. The talks cover his art, the craft of acting, the melding of personal and public personas, the accident in Ireland that led to his depression, and of the love he found through his family, and the command to "always wear your seatbelt!" These mandelbrots of conversation were produced as a single program to present as a tribute to Spalding.

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Review of Spalding Gray and Sedge Thomson radio conversations: "I'm Beginning to Doubt My Doubt"

Awesome insight into Spalding's last stage...

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Spalding Gray in Memorium

More a review piece of Spaulding Grey's life than anything else. Segment 1 is a little uneven but gives a good introduction to Grey. Needs to be leveled. Segment 2-6 gets into the real meat of the piece and the discussions with Grey start. Grey's prose and analysis of how hesets up his pieces is interesting but anyone not interested in Grey would bore easily.

Broadcast History

Aired in San Francisco 2004 as part of a Spring Drive, thus the segments. Piece can be run whole, with breaks as desired.

Timing and Cues

1 - Into 4:27
2 - '98a 13:50
3 - '98b 9:37
4 - '99 17:50
5 - '01 14:38
6 - ' 01b 9:46
7 - '01c 4:52

Related Website

http://www.WCL.org