Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Three academics romp their way through mead-soaked Scandinavia. Semi-opera noise ensues. Hwæt!
9.5
2020
1h 37m
Music
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
Top Cast
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Jason Craig
Beowulf
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Cameron Galloway
Academic 3/Dragon
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Anna Ishida
Warrior 1
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Jessica Jelliffe
Academic 1/Grendel's Mother
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Christopher Kuckenbaker
Academic 2/Grendel
Dave Malloy
King Hrothgar
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Shaye Troha
Warrior 2
