INTERVIEWING THE AUDIENCE

CANCELLED

“A wry Will Rogers for the fin-de-siecle...
a delicate and precise textual craftsman.”
—New York Post

Writer and actor Spalding Gray has decided to postpone performing his most recent monologue, Life Interrupted (which originally had the working title Black Spot). Due to delays resulting from a recent hospitalization, Gray needs additional time to develop this monologue. Instead of this originally advertised work, Gray will return to Santa Barbara as scheduled on May 7 with one of his favorite pieces Interviewing the Audience.

For the last twenty years Spalding Gray has toured this funny, poignant and insightful theater piece, although Arts & Lectures has never before presented it. Gray invites four audience members onstage and gets them to reveal their innermost desires, fears and joys, prompting them with empathetic questions and quips. Hailed by the Washington Post as a master of “public psychotherapy,” Spalding Gray creates a cathartic event for performer and audience.