SOURCE: A review of Swimming to Cambodia, in Theatre Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, March, 1987, pp. 96-7.

In the following assessment of a performance of Swimming to Cambodia, Gerson interprets the piece as a meditation on the loss of shared morality in the modern world: "We live in a world without moral compass, a world in which small outrages rank with large ones simply because we have lost all sense of scale in evaluating human affairs."

Swimming To Cambodia, a monologue written and performed by Spalding Gray is the last of a series of three such works offered by the Mitzi Neuhaus Theatre at Lincoln Center. Ostensibly, the piece is a fever chart of Gray's work on the film, The Killing Fields, and as such is an impressionistic, introspective revelation. Yet in interweaving his experience from his film work in contemporary Cambodia, his knowledge of the genocide that took place...