Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue
Spalding Gray, "Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue"
English | ISBN: 1400048613 | 2005 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 370 KB
English | ISBN: 1400048613 | 2005 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 370 KB
As the first decade of the new century was getting underway, Spalding Gray worried that the joy he’d finally found with his wife, stepdaughter, and two sons would fail to fuel his work as a theatrical monologist the way anxiety, conflict, doubt, and various crises once had. Before he got the chance to find out, however, an automobile accident in Ireland left him with the lasting wounds of body and spirit that ultimately led him to take his own life. But as his dear friend novelist Francine Prose notes in this volume’s foreword, “Even when his depression became so severe that he was barely able to hold a simple conversation, he was, miraculously, able to perform.”
As was always his method, Gray began to fashion a new monologue in various workshop settings that would tell the story of the accident and its aftermath. Originally titled
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