Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage " review
AssemblyYay! This is such fun. Smart, thoughtful and tuneful, too. We've already had one terrific piece of American song theatre at the fringe this year in the Team's Mission Drift, and now we get another in this musical deconstruction of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem about the hero Beowulf defeating the monster Grendel, who has been terrorizing and murdering the king's warriors. "That's just not nice," chides Beowulf wh…