The Guardian

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Staged by Proper Job theatre company for Kirklees Year of Music, it is a visually inventive mix of masks, shadow puppetry and projections. A gnarled and twiggy Grendel, made by puppeteer Liz Walker, looks like a creature grown from the soil, a quality shared by the music at its most organic.

“What I like about Proper Job is they have astonishing theatrical ideas – and trickery,” says writer McMillan “It’s like being a magician’s assistant, because you’ll send the words off and then you’ll go and see the thing. You recognise your words but, somehow, you’ve sent them off in black and white and they’ve turned them into Technicolor.”

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