Spalding gray playwright starring (3 Ergebnisse)

Vintage photograph from a 1973 filmed staging of Sam Shepard's 1972 stage musical, showing actor Spalding Gray (with a shaved head) at the right. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A science fiction musical about a futuristic world led by "Markers," players of an obscure game involving rock-and-roll music and violence. The production was first staged at the Open Space in London in July of 1972, moving to the McCarter Theater in New York in November of the same year, and then moving off-Broadway, to the Performing Garage in Soho, where it was filmed by theatre collective The Performance Group. 7 x 5 inches. Fine.…

Two vintage publicity photographs from the debut staging of the 1977 play-one showing playwright and actor Spalding Gray and actor Ron Vawter, the other showing Vawter and Gray with Nancy Reilly, Kate Valk, and Peyton Smith. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one photograph, and the other with the stamp of photographer Nancy Campbell. An avant-garde multimedia production and meditation on the nature of autobiography, staged by experimental theatre ensemble the Wooster Group at the Performing Garage in Soho. The Wooster Group emerged from Richard Schechner's The Performance Group in the mid-1970s, and fostered the careers of several prominent actors, including founding member Willem Dafoe. The theatre continues to stage productions today. Written by Gray in response to the suicide of his mother, "Rumstick Road" formed the second part of Gray's "Three Places in Rhode Island" trilogy. The production was reconstructed by video in 2012, by Wooster Group director Elizabeth LeCompte, archivist Clay Hapaz, and filmmaker Ken Kobland. Gray is best remembered today for his long-form, autobiographical monologues, including "Swimming to Cambodia," later adapted by Jonathan Demme for film in 1987, as well as his monologues "Monster in a Box" and "Gray's Anatomy," adapted by Nick Broomfield and Steven Soderbergh, respectively. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Three vintage reference photographs from the 1987 film. Provenance labels on the versos. Included with the photographs is a brief captions sheet on the letterhead of Steve Seifert Associates. Originally staged as a four-hour, two-night theatre piece, and adapted by Jonathan Demme in 1987 for film. Soundtrack by Laurie Anderson, who would also score Gray's 1992 film "Monster in a Box." 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. …