Review: Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written

Robin Hood is usually known as the man, the myth and the legend. As a character, he has fuelled many plots of pantomimes, films and TV series and yet research arguably states that Robin Hood as a singular figure in history is nothing more than fiction, so why are we all so gripped by this story? Well, Carl Grose reminds us why, as he sets out in his newest version of the story looking for the truth of where Robin Hood might have come from, while keeping an adventurous and wild plot at the centre point of it all.

Fear is running through the village with the corrupt sheriff (Baldwyn) and his assistant (Simpkins) drugging the king so that they can keep taxing the poor in order to build a new road through the forest. Woodnut is a young girl living with her father (Bob) in poverty. Unprepared to be punished for not giving money over to Baldwyn, Woodnut's journey begins when she runs off to the forest to prevent Baldwyn from hanging her for disobeying him. The forest becomes a place of safety for her, as well as for other outlaws that have been and gone, one of whom was her late mother, who is protecting her throughout the play.