Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (2020)
Three academics romp their way through mead-soaked Scandinavia. Semi-opera noise ensues. Hwæt!
2020 · 1h 37m · Music
Genres: Music
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.
Director: Rod Hipskind
Writers: Jason Craig
Music by: Dave Malloy
Editor: Christopher Kuckenbaker
Cast
Jason Craig as BeowulfCameron Galloway as Academic 3/DragonAnna Ishida as Warrior 1Jessica Jelliffe as Academic 1/Grendel's MotherChristopher Kuckenbaker as Academic 2/GrendelDave Malloy as King HrothgarShaye Troha as Warrior 2More like this
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