Rose Freeman

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Rose Freeman ’07, a graduate of the Theatre Department‘s Theatre Directing program, directs the Third Eye Theatre Ensemble’s midwest premiere of Han Lash’s chamber opera Beowulf, running September 2 through 11 at The Edge Off Broadway, located at 1133 W. Catalpa in Chicago’s Edgewater/Andersonville Theatre District. For tickets, click here.

Unlike the brawny images conjured by the Old English poem of yore, the hero of Lash’s Beowulf is a military doctor, who, despite being safely at home, is still plagued by desperate decisions made on the battlefield. As so many cope and recover from traumatic events, Beowulf reveals the pressures placed on our modern-day heroes and reexamines what it means to have mercy and love for our fellow man.