In the year 500 A.D., a jealous, decapitating monster terrorizes the drunken revelers of Heorot. A fearless princess goes in search of a hero who can save her people. But that hero guards a secret ...

Beowulf The Musical focuses on the parallel lives of the Geatish warrior, Beowulf, and the frustrated Danish princess, Freawaru, as they navigate the constrasting lives of their duty to their ...

The poem’s other women find no pleasure in violence: ‘Hoc’s daughter was savaged/by sorrow, grief-gutted.’ The failure of Freawaru’s peace-weaving marriage is signalled by her appearance at the ...

But Freawaru's journey does not end in her homeland - in search of her mother, she takes the whale road to Angle-land. Rogers derives the final destination of her story from the impressive ...

In 2007, Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza lost a mayoral race in Oaxaca, Mexico. It wasn't because she lacked votes; she had plenty to be elected. But her win was denied because of her sex. See also: 30 ...