It’s that time of year again: lights are going up all over the state at local theatre companies. From a legendary hero gone rock and roll to laugh-a-minute British farces, here’s how you should be getting your culture this season.
This year, Trinity Repertory Company kicks off its season with something completely unexpected. Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is a modern retelling of the epic heroic tale, but set to Tom Waits-inspired rock and roll. In this version, Beowulf still protects the great hall of Heorot from attacks by Grendel, Grendel’s mother and a fire-breathing dragon – but he does so with a panel of academics analyzing (and overanalyzing) his every move. Existential questions of heroism and purpose follow – set to music, of course. The show runs September 8-October 9, followed by Appropriate, opening October 6, which is a dramedy about the estranged members of the Lafayette family, who return home to their once-grand Arkansas estate after their patriarch passes away and discovers things about the family they would rather not know. It won the 2014-2015 Obie Award for Best New American Play. 201 Washington Street, Providence. 401-351-4242, TrinityRep.com
Agatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot is back on the case in Black Coffee at the Granite Theatre. One of Christie’s lesser known works, Black Coffee is set in the 1930s and centers on Sir Claude Armory, who discovers a formula for the first atom bomb before being poisoned… You guess how. The show runs September 9-October 2. 1 Granite Street, Westerly. 401-596-2341, GraniteTheatre.com
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