Gayanne Ramsden

Gayanne Ramsden is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a Ph.D. from the Department of Theatre and Film with an emphasis in Children's Theatre. She took, however, as many writing classes as she could. Dr. Ramsden's play "Beowulf" was performed as a readers theatre at Brigham Young University and a full production was staged at Spanish Fork High School in Utah. Dr. Ramsden has worked as a children's librarian in both school and city settings. Telling stories is one of her favorite pastimes.

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Beowulf

Classic by Gayanne Ramsden

60 pages

Flexible cast of 10 or more

This adaptation has kept alive the monsters and dragons that inhabited the original poem. However, it is told from the point of view of a Scop (Shope), a teller of tales, who had traveled and fought with Beowulf. The Scop is now a prisoner of the Saxons and while a prisoner tells this tale of courage to a priest who eventually agrees to preserve it by writing it down. The tale the Scop tells is substantially the same as the poem we know, however, the Christian ethic is removed and the tale is presented, as the playwright believes it originally was, with the g...