* Winner * Best Theatrical Production of the Year "That was fucking awesome...the most thoroughly enjoyable theatrical display I've seen yet this year." - East Bay Express

Dave Malloy receives 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant for Beowulf! Playbill.com

"exhilaratingly eclectic and comic Banana-Shotgun Players world premiere, a two-hour creative deconstruction and celebration ... with a terrific, eclectic score" - Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

"rages with an anarchic energy" - SF Weekly

"[This] brilliantly funny, muscular, and plain irresistible "songplay" is like the Bay Area landing of some marauding East Coast tribe of masterful miscreants." - Robert Avila, SF Bay Guardian

"hilarious...clever...has the makings of a cult fave." - Variety

"Part funky rock opera, part tart Brechtian parable, thoroughly visceral." - San Jose Mercury News

"Jessica Jelliffe is outstanding ... Jason Craig is tremendous ... Anna Ishida and Shaye Troha ... exuberant in their dance moves ... Rod Hipskind has directed a wonderful, zany version of this Nordic classic." - Richard Connema, Talking Broadway

""One of the most exciting and unusual theatrical events of 2008...shrewd, highly imaginative, often startlingly designed." - Robert Avlia, SF Bay Guardian