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Swimming to Cambodia.
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In the following essay, McGuigan discusses Gray's artistic concerns and Gray's performance in Swimming to Cambodia.
Spalding Gray walks onstage carrying a spiral notebook with a cartoon ...
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In the following essay, Phelan provides critical analysts of the stage, film, and text versions of Swimming to Cambodia. Phelan is critical of Gray's egocentrism and "opportunistic...
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In the following essay, Prinz examines Gray's attempt to communicate and understand "the fantastic and seemingly impossible facts of history" in Swimming to Cambodia.
Laughter to...
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The following essay prefaced the published version of Swimming to Cambodia. Gray characterizes himself as a "poetic reporter" who, unlike traditional journalists, prefers to "give...
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Focusing particularly on Swimming to Cambodia, Jenkins emphasizes the importance of memory in Gray's work. "Memory is a recurring character in every one of his performances, " Jen...
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In the following review of the premiere production of Swimming to Cambodia at the Performing Garage in New York, Gussow characterizes the play "a virtuosic evening of autobiographical storytell...
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In the review below, Fuchs considers Swimming to Cambodia "an artistic culmination for Gray as well as an impressive political breakthrough."
Spalding Gray has created eight autobiograph...
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In the following evaluation of the Performing Garage production of Swimming to Cambodia, Howell admires Gray's "deceptively simple storytelling."
For nearly ten years Spalding Gra...
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In the following article, Simpson contends that "most of all," Swimming to Cambodia "is about what it's like to be Spalding Gray. " She also discusses with Gray the ...
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In the following assessment of a performance of Swimming to Cambodia, Gerson interprets the piece as a meditation on the loss of shared morality in the modern world: "We live in a world without...
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In the following essay, Demastes argues that while Swimming to Cambodia is rooted in the principles of experimental theater, it undermines and transcends those principles.
Spalding Gray's caree...
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Critical Essay by Cathleen McGuigan
