GRAY'S ANATOMY at Third Avenue Playhouse

Starring DOUG MANCHESKI for Two Performances Only: July 8 & July 10 &;30pm

In middle age, Spalding Gray (played by Doug Mancheski) has entered “the Bermuda Triangle of Health,” that place where the body begins to break down in alarming and humiliating ways. His immediate problem is an eye complaint that could be corrected with minor surgery. But for the high priest of high anxiety, nothing is ever minor. And so Gray embarks on a crazed crusade for wellness that takes him from a Native American sweat lodge to a dictatorial nutritionist and, finally, to a gory session with the “Elvis Presley of psychic surgeons” in the Far East.

To many, many people, Mancheski is goofy ice fisherman Marvin in the beloved “Guys on Ice” or any number of comic characters in summertime musicals at Door County’s Northern Sky Theater. In “Gray’s Anatomy,” Mancheski is another actor altogether. Spalding Gray is another of the image-expanding characters he has presented at Third Avenue Playerhouse – and another example of how hard bona fide professional actors work. -Warren Gerds, WFRV Green Bay.

Authors

• Spalding Gray