COMMUNITY News:
Jeff Spicer in Spalding Gray’s “Monster In A Box”, presented by The Dixon Community Players, will open 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Toolshed, 68 NM 75 in Dixon.
The show will continue at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets cost $15 and are available at www.dixonplayers.com or at the door.
Box Office opens a half hour prior to the performance.
Spicer said he became aware of Gray through his video performance in Swimming to Cambodia 30 years ago and was intrigued with him. Spicer researched him through spoken word CDs and heard the monologue for “Monster In A Box”. As a result of listening to this monologue more than once, Spicer said parts of the monologue have been bouncing around in his head for so long that he decided to take it onstage. He contacted the Spalding Gray Estate for permission to perform “Monster In A Box” at the Wildflower Playhouse in Taos for four performances. It was so popular that the Dixon Players and the Toolshed in Dixon asked him to extend for two more performances.
About Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – Jan. 11, 2004) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987.
About Jeff Spicer
Jeff Spicer was in the Dixon Players’s very first production, “Spitfire Grill” in 2007 at the Dixon Elementary School Gym. The Toolshed was built in 2012, and he was in the first production there, “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown”, and many more. He has also performed in many TaosOnstage productions.
