Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Three academics romp their way through mead-soaked Scandinavia. Semi-opera noise ensues. Hwæt!
9.5/1020201h 37m
Released
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
Cast
J
Jason Craig
Beowulf
C
Cameron Galloway
Academic 3/Dragon
A
Anna Ishida
Warrior 1
J
Jessica Jelliffe
Academic 1/Grendel's Mother
C
Christopher Kuckenbaker
Academic 2/Grendel
Dave Malloy
King Hrothgar
S
Shaye Troha
Warrior 2
