an interesting interview with tom waits

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCSc6E4yG9s

Tom Waits/Quotes
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
The piano has been drinking, not me.
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits


Blue skies

Blue skies over my head

Give me another reason to get out of bed

Blue skies shine on my face

Give me another woman to take her place

Ain't got no money, cupboards are bare

No cigarettes and the kids got nothing to wear

She walked out without a word

Now the only sound left is the morning bird singing

Blue skies over my head

Give me another reason to get out of bed

Blue skies shine on my face

Give me another woman to take her place

Blue skies over my head

Give me another reason to get out of bed

Blue skies shine on my face

Give me another woman to take her place

Give me another woman to take her place

what id imagine the stage would look like if it was set in an actual pub

My Character

(drunk)

Experimental theatre 

Experimental theatre is trying something new. Like other forms of the avant garde, it was created as a response to a perceived general cultural crisis. Despite different political and formal approaches, all avant-garde theatre opposes bourgeois theatre.


some examples of experimental theatre 

Usually/(in the past) audiences are seen as (allowing something to happen without reacting or trying to stop it) (people who are watching something). Many (professionals or skilled people) of experimental theatre have wanted to challenge this. For example, Bertolt Brecht wanted to get ready for action his audiences by having a character in a play break through the invisible "fourthwall," directly ask the audience questions, not giving them answers, by that/in that way gettingthem to think for themselves; Augusto Boal wanted his audiences to react directly to the action;and Antonin Artaud wanted to affect them directly on a subconscious level. Peter Brook hasidentified a triangle of relationships within a performance: the performers' internal relationships,the performers' relationships to each other on stage, and their relationship with the audience. The British experimental theatre group Welfare State International has spoken of aceremonial circle during performance, the cast providing one half, the audience providinganother, and the energy in the middle.

Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."^[1] With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musicals and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.

Waits' lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists