Description: Spalding Gray's new monologue is about surviving a midlife crisis by finding his balance on skis. Gray is "the grand master of the first-person singular" (Peter Marks, The New York Times), and in It's a Slippery Slope he explores the dramatic changes in his personal life: becoming a father for the first time, losing a father forever, and surviving his mother's suicide. Within a year, the familiar boundaries of Gray's existence have been altered by betrayal, love, lust, and loss. He suddenly marries his longtime companion, Renee, and divorces her just as quickly; he moves in with his girlfriend, Kathie, who bears him a son; and he learns, against all odds, to ski. But not even his mastery of the much feared right turn can prepare him for fatherhood, for the experience of "pure consciousness", as he cradles his baby in his arms.

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