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Banana Bag & BodiceBanana Bag & Bodice is a Hudson Valley-based ensemble theatre company that creates original plays with a strong emphasis on text, music and design. They have performed at The Collapsable Hole, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, PS 122, The Brick Theater, Abrons Arts Center, American Repertory Theater, Joe's Pub,Bushwick Starr, and festivals in San Francisco, New York City, Montreal, Dublin, Edinburgh, Brighton, Bristol and Adelaide. Company historyFounded in 1999 in San Francisco by Co-Artistic Directors Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe, Banana Bag & Bodice has created 12 original productions. The group is now based in the Hudson Valley NY, but maintains a strong relationship to New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.[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] WorksThe 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 (2004)A panel discussion on the death of love Panel.Animal (2005)A double feature of The Young War and Sandwich The Sewers (2006)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 (play) (2009)A claustrophobic container tale The Perfect Play (2013)The ultimate nativity musical LongYarn (2016)A tell tale told by an old doozy Space//Space (film) (2023)A claustrophobic container film Interno Inferno (in progress)A poetic posit on the afterlife Artists
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