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Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
a Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay
written by Jason Craig
music by Dave Malloy
directed by Rod Hipskind
March 31 - April 18, 2009
The Abrons Arts Center,
466 Grand Street @ Pitt, New York City
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 new SongPlay is an irreverent dissertation on art versus criticism in blood soaked Scandinavia!