Dave Malloy
2021
Ghost Quartet at the McKittrick Hotel, Jan. 12, 2015
Annie Tippe
Brent Arnold, Brittain Ashford
A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk.
Ghost Quartet at the McKittrick Hotel, Jan. 12, 2015
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Rod Hipskind
Jason Craig, Cameron Galloway
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.
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
