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) Zbigniew Bzymek (Video Artist for Space//Space)
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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.
External links[]
- Off-Off-Broadway
- Musical theatre companies
- Theatre companies in New York City
- American artist groups and collectives
- Performance art in New York City
- Performing groups established in 1999
- 1999 establishments in California