TRAGEDY, COMEDY, LOVE and adventure. The musical, Forkbeard, set in 11th-century Scandinavia, contains all the ingredients for an epic historical musical. This year, it finally premiered in Penang in April 2024 after the Covid-19 pandemic cut short its launch almost four years ago.
Parallel to the Viking’s spirit of courage and relentlessness, the people behind the show did not stop believing in their musical or give up hope of ever staging it again despite the heartbreaking start-stop of the many Movement Control Orders (MCO) in Malaysia.
