Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
2020
Music
Overview
Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters and haughty professors collide as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous musical. Presented by San Francisco's infamous Shotgun Players and New York's infectious Banana Bag & Bodice, this SongPlay is an irreverent dissertation on art versus criticism in blood-soaked Scandinavia.
Cast
Jason Craig
Beowulf
Cameron Galloway
Academic 3/Dragon
Anna Ishida
Warrior 1
Jessica Jelliffe
Academic 1/Grendel's Mother
Christopher Kuckenbaker
Academic 2/Grendel
Dave Malloy
King Hrothgar
Shaye Troha
Warrior 2
Directors
Rod Hipskind
