Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 31, 2009
Closed Apr 18, 2009
Opened Mar 31, 2009
Closed Apr 18, 2009
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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 new SongPlay is an irreverent dissertation on art versus criticism in blood soaked Scandinavia!
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Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, now being co-presented by the Berkeley-based Shotgun Players and New York's Banana Bag & Bodice at the Abrons Arts Center, is a rock opera that bills itself as a "songplay." And while it first seems to be the goal of this production to rediscover the passion and energy that drew early Medieval listeners to the original story, the troupes are less interested in recreating Beowulf, or looking for great meaning in it, than they are in simply creating art and having a lot of fun doing it. And they largely succeed on their own terms.
The show begins with three academic critics (Beth Wilmurt, Jessica Jelliffe, and Christopher Kuckenbaker) who are seen from [...]