Beowulf: A Performance Translation with Sebastian Lockwood (In-Person)
Thursday, October 57:00—8:00 PMMain Floor- Main Reading RoomAmherst Town Library14 Main Street, Amherst, NH, 03031
This single inherited epic in our language has it all: drama, blood, heroism, mourning, and teaching with soul-searching thought about all this. It looks back. In its top layer of listening, we are brought along with heroic figures, even with a superhero, to challenge agonizing monsters. This world also includes beautiful sea voyages, crafty disputes, the falling of tribes, and moving elegies.
Storyteller and podcaster, Sebastian Lockwood tells the great epics: Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Caesar, Beowulf and Monkey. His studies in Classics and Anthropology at Boston University and Cambridge University in the UK laid the foundation for bringing these great tales into performance. Lockwood's performances are designed to take complex texts and make them accessible and exciting for audiences from 5 to 95.
While you await the program, Lockwood recommends that you check out this BBC production "In Search of Beowulf" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0sFXU0SLo
In-Person Program. Registration Required.
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