Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

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.

Directed by Rod Hipskind

Top cast

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Jason Craig

Beowulf

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Cameron Galloway

Academic 3/Dragon

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Anna Ishida

Warrior 1

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Jessica Jelliffe

Academic 1/Grendel's Mother

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Christopher Kuckenbaker

Academic 2/Grendel

Dave Malloy

King Hrothgar

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Shaye Troha

Warrior 2

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