Word: grendel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After disposing of three prospective suitors--Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, dressed as the Marx brothers--Charisma is enchanted by the massively masculine figure of Beowulf ("a wandering ethos") who is followed by a broken-hearted lover, Grendel's mother ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type"). The fair damsel was ravishing in green makeup, red eyes, a nightgown sort of thing and shocking pink tights. Several tutors got quite excited at this one and had to battle the marxists to get backstage...
BEOWULF: I know your kind. You'll just change into things, like Grendel's mother...
...obstacle remains for the blissful couple--Prof. Mathiez ("a feather from the left wing"). Oozing onto the stage he exclaims, "You have nothing to lose but your brains--I mean chains." His threat is mitigated when it is revealed that he is really the father of Grendel, i.e. Grendel's mother's ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type") husband. Charisma and Beowulf then sing of the joyous life they will have together as the defeated Mathiez writhes in the corner: "We'll just be petty bourgeoisl...
...Reckford, the bibliophile, also directed; Walt Jewell produced. Marshall Moriarty as Weber coughed exceedingly well, and Emilie Rahman as his daughter was enticing. Reckford, as Hobbes; Charles Bevard as Locke, and Judd Conway as Rousseau were properly raucous. Jack Henrikson made a bellowing Beowulf; Mary Doyle, a grucsome Grendel's mother; and Alan Horsley, a mushy Mathiez...