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Sakonnet Point

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Extract

I knew I wanted to do something, and I wanted to do it with a child and with women. I like children and I like women.

Spalding Gray

Sakonnet Point, an hour-long piece “composed and directed” by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte, was presented at the Performing Garage in New York City in early June, 1975. It formed the third part of an evening of three plays presented by members of The Performance Group. (Later in the summer it was presented alone in a converted church at Westerly, Rhode Island, and again in October at the Garage.) Sakonnet Point (the title is taken from the name of a town in Rhode Island where Gray spent his summers as a child) is a very personal, contemplative piece, attempting to evoke dreamlike moods through images presented in soft, dim lighting.

Type
New Performance
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 The Drama Review

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References

The title silhouette of Spalding Gray is one of the early images in Sakonnet Point. All photographs with this article are by Ken Kobland. They were taken during the October, 1975, production in which Libby Howes and Joan MacIntosh replaced Leeny Sack and Alexandra Ivanoff.