Music 04/23/2020 97m

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (2020)

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

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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.

Rod Hipskind

Director

Jason Craig

Writer