Monday, March 30, 2009
Jason Craig, Bespectacled Monster Slayer of ‘Beowulf’
NYTimes.com: "ASK most playwrights about the origins of a show, and you usually hear a well-practiced story with polished anecdotes and convenient bursts of inspiration. But Jason Craig, the bearish author and star of “Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage,” which opens Wednesday at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side, sounded vaguely unsure of himself when explaining why he chose to adapt the 1,000-year-old heroic poem for the stage."
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I'm a pretty big fan of Beowulf the poem and sadly understand the comment about how the poem has jsut been analyzed too much for many people to enjoy it still. So, I took great delight in the idea that Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage was part performance of the poem, and part mockery of those who have analyzed something into the ground. The idea behind the company performing the piece is also fairly intriguing. It's budget theater like this that's going to really help out the theatrical arts in this less then preferable economy
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