BENJAMIN BAGBY — Beowulf

Mr. Bagby comes as close to holding hundreds of people in a spell as ever a man has... That is much too rare an experience in theater.

The New York Times

While Beowulf has come down to us as literature, as a written poem, the epic’s pre-literate audience would have known it through the performance of a scop, a bardic storyteller, as Bagby presents himself in this remarkable interpretation. In this one-man tour de force, Bagby accompanies himself on an Anglo-Saxon harp. Using the entire range of his voice, he delivers this gripping tale in Old English as it could have been experienced more than one thousand years ago

This is a performance which speaks to the lovers of Beowulf and oral epic, early music enthusiasts, Tolkien fans, medievalists, and anyone ssearching for virtuoso storytelling or a glimpse into the fascinating beginnings of the English langauge.