Contact information
Name:
Williams Center Ticket Office
Phone:
610-330-5009
Email:
williamscenter@lafayette.edu
Link for More Information:
When:
Friday, March 24, 2017 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
Williams Center for the Arts
Price:
$29 / staff - $5 / Laf students - free
Beowulf: The Epic in Performance
Benjamin Bagby, voice and Anglo-Saxon harp
“Hwaet!” commands the storyteller. Listen! And tremble at this fearsome tale! A millennium or more has passed since the superhero Beowulf appeared in the annals of epic poetry, yet the legend of his bare-handed conquest of the terrifying Grendel endures. As one of the world’s leading practitioners of historically informed music and theater, Benjamin Bagby dramatizes the awe-inspiring poem in the original Anglo-Saxon, while simultaneously accompanying himself on medieval harp. “Bagby mesmerized his crowd…they might as well have been children sitting around a campfire, listening to ghost stories—the theater was stone silent.” (The Mercury News, San Jose).