Beowulf

Banana Bag & Bodice does Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage

Banana Bag & Bodice brings their award-winning epic SongPlay back in Concert Mead Hall style. Monsters and professors collide in blood-soaked Scandinavia as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous dissertation on art and violence. With an 8 piece band including dueling trombones, bass clarinet, accordion and saw, Beowulf combines Weillian cabaret, 40's jazz harmony, indie rock, punk, electronica and Romantic lieder into a cacophonous swirl.

Written by Jason Craig
Music by Dave Malloy
C0-Directed by Rod Hipskind and Mallory Catlett

**Winner of the 2008 Glickman Award**
**2009 Innovative Theater Award Nomination, Best Music**
**Best of 2008: East Bay Express (#1), SF Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, SF Examiner, Mercury News**

From the creators of A Very Sandwich Christmas, The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen, The Sewers and Panel.Animal

http://www.bananabagandbodice.org
http://davemalloy.com/beowulf.html

"Joyfully raucous"
-The New Yorker

"Has the makings of a cult fave."
-Variety

"A thrashing, bashing rendition of the 'Beowulf' story...all done to music that demands to be described as demented."
-New York Times

"...a brilliant musical score...wonderfully cacophonous arrangements for blaring trombones, booming percussion, wild guitar, and wailing horns and viola, that not only capture the raw, primitive sensibilities of the story's eighth-century Scandinavian setting and characters but also underline subtle elements of the drama through hard rock, traditional Middle Eastern tunes, rap, Broadway, 1960s folk, and vocal jazz."
-Back Stage

photo by Ryan Jensen