
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (2020)
9.5
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Apr 23, 2020 (US)
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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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Cast

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
King Hrothgar

Shaye Troha
Warrior 2