Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

Three academics romp their way through mead-soaked Scandinavia. Semi-opera noise ensues. Hwæt!

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

J

Jason Craig

Beowulf

C

Cameron Galloway

Academic 3/Dragon

A

Anna Ishida

Warrior 1

J

Jessica Jelliffe

Academic 1/Grendel's Mother

C

Christopher Kuckenbaker

Academic 2/Grendel

Dave Malloy

King Hrothgar

S

Shaye Troha

Warrior 2