Film

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

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

9.5

1h 37m

2020

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

Synopsis

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

Music

musicaldragonbeowulf

Cast & Crew

Jason Craig

as Beowulf

Cameron Galloway

as Academic 3/Dragon

Anna Ishida

as Warrior 1

Jessica Jelliffe

as Academic 1/Grendel's Mother

Christopher Kuckenbaker

as Academic 2/Grendel

Dave Malloy

as King Hrothgar

Shaye Troha

as Warrior 2

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