"It's not too long if it is brilliant."
I remember seeing a performance at the University of Dayton in Ohio in 1997. It was a monologue, and one of the connecting themes was a Greyhound bus ride. The time of the performance passed quickly. And during that time I was sad, and I was happy. At times my heart was pounding, and at other times I could not take a breath. I also laughed out loud. At the end of the performance, I had gone through so many emotions I was jumbled inside and all I could think was 'wow'.

It was surely much longer than a few minutes, though it did not seem to be.
And it was brilliant.

After reading your reminisence of Spaulding Gray, I am left with a deep poignancy for his life which may have shifted to another realm. I think, had he read your lines, he would have been infused with hope to give us more of his life as performance art. Thanks for honoring him so movingly. Dan