George’s QUEST is a screenplay I’m adapting from two books Dark Sun: Te Rapunga and the Quest of George Dibbern by Erika Grundmann and Quest by George Dibbern, amplifying the voice of the “first world citizen” philosopher and sailor, Captain George Dibbern (1889-1962) and his 32-foot ketch called Te Rapunga presently experiencing a resurrection herself.
It’s Not A Safe Space But It’s Where We Live: Listening to Stew and the Negro Problem’s Notes of a Native Song and Total Bent by Wally for The Brooklyn Rail, November 2018.
The Presence of the Audience: Political Theatre in the Real World by Wally was published in 2016 in THE BRIDGE journal by Elysium.
Interview or Who’s Afraid of Mr. Albee? is a transcription of an interview I conducted with the great maverick American playwright Mr. Edward Albee. The first third of the play however had to be written from memory due to my mini-disc recorder failing to function during the first part of the interview. The play is written in classic Albee style and is the best portrait I could muster of a man I truly admire and respect.
Here’s my interview called Listening to Robert Wilson. I was an assistant to Robert Wilson for two weeks in January of 1995 as he choreographed with the Martha Graham Dance Company. In the summer of 2007, photographer Jeffery Price and I went to visit Bob at the Watermill Center. We came away with an insightful interview and this portrait.
Click to read some of the plays and musicals I’ve brought to the page and stage.
Jack of Tarts: a bittersweet musical written w/ Chris Tanner & Paul Johnson
Suc Daddy: an urban operetta libretto by Molly Gallagher
Breasts of Tiresias: A Surrealist Musical based on Guillaume Apollinaire
Cain by Wally
The Didi Plays by Wally
Plays for kids.
Moses in Five Acts for Passover
The Tale of the Thanksgiving Ladybug for Thanksgiving
Bob Winging It adaptation of Joe Jamaldinian’s book
Poppleton and Friends adaptation of Cynthia Rylant’s stories
Want to write a play? Here’s A Playwright’s Manual in PDF
Here it is in .DOC
My September 11, 2001 diary from Manhattan … The Last Days of the Year With No Name.
An article about the attempted sale of the Stanton Street Shul. Twilight on the Lower East Side
And for your Passover seder, here’s The Feel Free Haggadah.
Here is some music from my shows:
Madeleine Besson as The People of Zanzibar
THE BREASTS OF TIRESIAS: A SURREALIST MUSICAL
(based on Guillaume Apollinaire’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias)
Produced by Amy Wood / NEW YORK AVENUE
Adapted and Directed by Eric Wallach
Music by Jeremy Bernstein and Madeleine Besson
Encore: This is the Time
Click on titles to hear:
No Mister Husband
Zanzibar Needs Children
Progeny
Sweet Poppet
This is the Time
THE JACK OF TARTS: A BITTERSWEET MUSICAL
by Eric Wallach & Chris Tanner
Music by Paul Johnson
Lyrics by Johnson, Tanner and Wallach
Produced and Directed by Eric Wallach
La Mama E.T.C. February 2007
Chris Tanner as the Jack of Tarts photo by J. Price
You take me, Tartannia
Have a listen:
Prologue
I Wonder
This Entire Town Smells Like Shit
Morning Song
The View From the Sidelines
Finale
