A Viking Puppet Opera
“A few miles from here a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch. . . .”
The thousand-year old poem, strangely beautiful, fantastical, and surreal, tells of the monster Grendel, who plagues the ancient king Hrothgar, and the feral Beowulf who arrives to save the world from marauding evil. The Old Trouts plunge into the depths of these old souls, digging in the muck of this earliest of humankind’s nightmares. What’s more, they do it with the absurdity and theatrical frenzy for which they are known: it’s an operatic extravaganza, replete with shaggy beasts, prancing Vikings, and singing girls in horned helmets.
Beowulf premiered in February 2002, presented by One Yellow Rabbit in Calgary’s Big Secret Theatre at the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts. It won a Betty Mitchell Award for outstanding sound design by Peter Moller.
“[A]stonishing . . . Beowulf proves Old Trouts convey unlimited range.”
—Fast-Forward Calgary
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