Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

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.

• Rod HipskindDirector
• Jason CraigWriter

• Jason CraigBeowulf
• Cameron GallowayAcademic 3/Dragon
• Anna IshidaWarrior 1
• Jessica JelliffeAcademic 1/Grendel's Mother
• Christopher KuckenbakerAcademic 2/Grendel
• Dave MalloyKing Hrothgar
• Shaye TrohaWarrior 2