Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

2020/04/23 • Released

Music
9.5
1h 37m

Three academics romp their way through mead-soaked Scandinavia. Semi-opera noise ensues. Hwæt!

Overview

Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters and haughty professors collide as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous musical. Presented by San Francisco's infamous Shotgun Players and New York's infectious Banana Bag & Bodice, this SongPlay is an irreverent dissertation on art versus criticism in blood-soaked Scandinavia.

Director : Rod Hipskind

Casts

Jason Craig

Beowulf

Cameron Galloway

Academic 3/Dragon

Anna Ishida

Warrior 1

Jessica Jelliffe

Academic 1/Grendel's Mother

Christopher Kuckenbaker

Academic 2/Grendel

Dave Malloy

Dave Malloy

King Hrothgar

Shaye Troha

Warrior 2

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