Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

Top 7 Billed Cast

Jason Craig
Jason Craig

Beowulf

Cameron Galloway
Cameron Galloway

Academic 3/Dragon

Anna Ishida
Anna Ishida

Warrior 1

Jessica Jelliffe
Jessica Jelliffe

Academic 1/Grendel's Mother

Christopher Kuckenbaker
Christopher Kuckenbaker

Academic 2/Grendel

Dave Malloy
Dave Malloy

King Hrothgar

Shaye Troha
Shaye Troha

Warrior 2

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    Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

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    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.

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    2020-04-23

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

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