Woyzeck is a 2000 musical with music and lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan , and book by Robert Wilson , based on the unfinished play Woyzeck by German playwright Georg Büchner . It is Waits, Brennan and Wilson's third collaboration, after the 1990 musical The Black Rider and the 1992 musical Alice . Waits recorded many of the songs from Woyzeck for his 2002 album Blood Money , which was released alongside Alice , his recording of songs from the musical Alice .
Woyzeck premiered in November 2000 in a Danish production at the Betty Nansen Teatret in Copenhagen , with dialogue in Danish and songs sung in English ; Jens Jørn Spottag played the title role.[ 1] The Danish production played at the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2001,[ 2] then (with the dialogue changed to English) ran at the Barbican Centre in September and October 2002,[ 3] followed by a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in October and November 2002.[ 4] A 2010[ 5] production, which placed all the action on a net suspended over the stage, ran at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany , then played at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia .[ 6] This production added Waits' 1992 song "Dirt in the Ground " to the score.[ 6] The musical was performed by Shotgun Players in Berkeley, California in 2012.[ 7]
References
^ Rottensten, Rikke (November 21, 2000). "Genial Woyzeck" . Kristelit Dagblad .
^ Fricker, Karen (October 4, 2001). "Woyzeck (review)" . The Guardian .
^ Spencer, Charles (September 30, 2002). "A harrowing classic robbed of passion" . The Telegraph .
^ Pareles, Jon (October 31, 2002). "THEATER REVIEW; Woyzeck as a Normal Guy Who Gets Jealous" . The New York Times .
^ "Woyzeck" . Thalia Theater . Retrieved 2020-04-24 .
^ a b Blake, Jason (January 10, 2016). "Sydney Festival 2016 review: Woyzeck is raw, muscular and intensely musical" . Sydney Morning Herald .
^ Hurwitt, Robert (December 9, 2012). " 'Woyzeck' review: tragedy triumphs" . SFGate .
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