Beowolf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

Opera versus criticism in mead-soaked Scandinavia! Any story that survives the test of time will have a few battle scars. Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters, and haughty professors collide as one of the most twisted stories in the literary cannon comes to life–with a live musical score! Shotgun Players and collaborating company Banana, Bag and Bodice have gotten down to work inspecting this classic poem and adapting its powerful narrative to make a new musical play that is part homage and part parody.