Walking Shadow Theatre Company

Enter the hall of the nameless Sea-Hag, mother of Grendel. She slew her ancient enemies, but it wasn’t enough. It’s never enough. Still she hungers for retribution.

In conjunction with Feast , Walking Shadow Artistic Director John Heimbuch is performing Charlie Bethel’s stunning one-person version of Beowulf on Saturdays.

When comedian Megan loses her charming, unreliable, alcoholic father, she unearths evidence of her family’s ancestral ties to the founding of the state of Iowa. Were they hearty immigrants making a new life on the frontier? Or a collection of self-satisfied boot-strappers complicit in destruction and erasure? (Why choose?)

It’s 1950, and the government is purging the “enemies within”. Two U. S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have a great track record of rooting out Communists. Now, they’ve been tasked with identifying sexual deviants among their ranks. There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover.