Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

“Old English epic meets art-rock… a provocative delight… it’s an often exhilarating popular culture romp through the epic that mocks, deconstructs and celebrates it at the same time… as provocative as it is entertaining, with a score that draws on everything from blues and country to haunting echoes of Kurt Weill and Weimar cabaret.” – SFGate

“Rollicking… [a] combination of legendary monster-killer and klezmer music… And who would have thought that a production as full of noise as this one could end on a note approaching poignancy? It’s the last surprise in a play full of them.” – The New York Times

“Arresting, amusing… a song-play that both depicts every English major’s epic-poem scourge in clever rock opera terms and deconstructs its own deconstruction via mock academic panel analysis.” – Variety

“This is such fun. Smart, thoughtful and tuneful, too… it's boldly theatrical, full of bravado and even as it playfully tears the narrative apart, it never forgets that it has a story to tell.” – The Guardian

“Noisy, dirty and often brilliant… intelligent and tremendously fun.” – Exeunt Magazine

“Not only hilarious, but 100% accessible even to those who have never read, and maybe don't want to read, the book. This play is half academic lecture--but funny, and half manic musical fever dream, which come together beautifully.” – BroadwayWorld