Show Plot Shrek

Authors: Jeanine Tesori and librettist/lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire, based on the 2001 DreamWorks film and William Steig's 1990 book Shrek!.

Time Period: A timeless "Once Upon a Time" mythical medieval era (often styled with satirical 17th-to-19th-century fairy-tale pastiches)

Setting: Mythical medieval fairy-tale kingdom, various fantastical locations including Shrek’s ugly green swamp, the sterile, authoritarian, and hyper-manicured tourist-trap kingdom of Duloc, and a forbidding volcanic Dragon’s Keep tower

Summary:

Shrek The Musical follows an outcast ogre who journeys to rescue a princess and regain his swamp.