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Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage
“…joyfully raucous and silly…brings out the power and the color of the legend…” -The New Yorker
"Hilarious...clever...has the makings of a cult fave." -Variety
This SongPlay adaptation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf harkens back to the raw and rowdy storytelling of the Scandinavian mead halls. The show features a 7-piece band including dueling trombones, bass clarinet, accordion and saw, combining Weillian cabaret, 40's jazz harmony, indie rock, punk, electronica and Romantic Lieder into a cacophonous swirl.
Beowulf's most recent successes came last summer when the show toured to the SummerStage Festival and Joe’s Pub in New York City, ART’s Club Oberon in Boston, and the Lion d’Or Theater as part of Les Escales Improbables in Montreal, Quebec.
""The resulting adaptation skewers, celebrates, and deconstructs “Beowulf’’ in an effort to reclaim it from years of academic analysis and return it to its roots as a visceral, pulse-pounding tale." -The Boston Globe
"...a blend of bawdy, bloody, ironic, lusty and honest. " -The Hour, Montreal
     READY TO TOUR.
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Space//Space - A Claustrophobic Container Tale
Exploring the idea of human occupancy in a time capsule, Space//Space pushes the boundaries of lonliness, companionship, sex, growth and degeneration. Two brothers volunteer for a work program and are placed in a small vessel and launched into outer space: this experiment provides the ideal setting for comic futility and existential trajedy and at the same time is a ruthless examination of how human beings cope in the most arduous and punishing conditions. Employing otherworldly sound scoring and video projection, in combination with the tiny, jewel-like space pod, Space//Space evokes the expansive cosmos beyond and the loneliness of our inner orbits.
IN DEVELOPMENT. TO PREMIERE WINTER 2011.
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