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Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (2020)

9.5 | Apr 23, 2020 (US) | Music | 01:37

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

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.

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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
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Dave Malloy
King Hrothgar
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Shaye Troha
Warrior 2

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