Banana Bag & Bodice
Banana Bag & Bodice is a Brooklyn-based ensemble theatre company that creates original plays with a strong emphasis on text, music and design. They have performed at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, PS 122, The Brick Theater, Abrons Arts Center, American Repertory Theater, Joe's Pub, and festivals in San Francisco, New York City, Montreal, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Adelaide.
Company history
Founded in 1999 in San Francisco by Co-Artistic Directors Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe, Banana Bag & Bodice have created ten original productions. The group is now based in Brooklyn NY, but maintains a strong relationship to the San Francisco Bay Area community.[1]
Their rock musical Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, commissioned by the Shotgun Players, won the 2008 Will Glickman Award[2] and a 2011 Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel, and continues to tour internationally.[3]
Works
The Bastard Chronicles (1999)
A compendium of oddities
Number 2 (2000)
A drama about death and remembrance
GULAG HA HA (2002)
A study on prison deformation
Sandwich (2003)
A musical about killing animals
The Young War (2003)
A panel discussion on the death of love
Panel.Animal (2005)
A double feature of The Young War and Sandwich
The Sewers (2005)
An aborted living room drama play
The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen (2007)
A "making the band" pageant play
Beowulf- A Thousand Years Of Baggage (2008)
A Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay
Space//Space (2009)
A claustrophobic container tale
Artists
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Jason Craig (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director/Writer/Performer) Jessica Jelliffe (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director/Performer) Peter Blomquist (Performer) Mallory Catlett (Director/Dramaturg) Miranda k Hardy (Lighting Designer) Rod Hipskind (Director/Performer) Dave Malloy (Composer/Sound Designer/Performer) Heather Peroni (Performer)
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References
- ^ Avila, Robert "Return to Deform". San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 7, 2009
- ^ Zinoman, Jason "Sing Thee Out, Bespectacled Monster Slayer!". New York Times, March 25, 2009
- ^ "ART Press Release". American Repertory Theater. Cambridge, MA.