Plays

• Alice
• (originally performed December 26?, 1992 in Hamburg, Germany)

  direction and stage design by Robert Wilson
  music and lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
  text by Paul Schmidt
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  In the Thalia production of "Alice" in Hamburg, some other funky instru- ments were used and are featured in the program along with the Theremin: the Stro-Violin, which looks like a violin without a body but with a horn attached to it; waterphones, which have many little metal poles protruding from a cylinder with a handle; and the "bug", which appears to be a diamond- shaped piece of wood with strings and also the protruding poles, two of which look like antennae.

  ALSO: The Brooklyn Academy of Music(BAM) in NYC mounted a production of 'Alice' October of 1995.

• The Black Rider
• (originally performed March 31, 1990 in Hamburg, Germany)

  direction and stage design by Robert Wilson
  music and lyrics by Tom Waits
  texts by William Burroughs
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  Read Original Casting

  ALSO: This play was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Nov 1993.
  Read Play Review - The New Yorker
  Read Play Review - Oberlin College

• Demon Wine
• (originally performed early 1989)

  Played in Los Angeles, California
  Starring alongside Carol Kane, and Bud Cort.

• Frank's Wild Years
• (originally performed three months in Summer of 1986 by The Steppenwolf Theatre Group)

  Written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
  music and lyrics by Tom Waits
  Tom Waits (vocals, co-writer)
  Kathleen Brennan (co-writer)
  Moris Tepper (guitar)
  WIllie Schwarz (accordian?)