Robin Hood - The Truth Behind the Green Tights (1985)
Directed by John Hartnett
Performances: Sun 6th – Sat 12th January 1985, Bell Theatre
Contents
Introduction
The action takes place in Nottingham once upon a time.
The play concerns the exploits of Albert Ross, described by his wife as a 'weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, chicken-livered little coward, who attempts to play both sides against each other in the struggle betweeen the forces of GOOD represented by Robin Hood and his Merry Men and of EVIL in the persons of the Sherriff of Nottingham and the lecherous Guy of Gisbourne.
Cast
- Albert Ross - Mike Mattey
- Mrs Ross - Ann Richards
- Maid Marion - Sharon Pidgeon
- Robin Hood - Quenton Cobby
- Little John - Alan Faulkner
- Will Scargill - Matthew Lyne
- Sheriff of Nottingham - Dennis Packham
- Guy of Gisbourne - Malcolm Saunders
- Tree/Town Crier/Maid - Sue Thompson
- Dicken Barleycorn/Mouth - Bernard Witt
- Everybody Else - Martin Leech
Crew
- Stage Manager - Sharon Phipp
- Assistant Stage Mangers - John Kidd, June McAuliffe, Jack Fitzgerald & Carol Wheeler
- Lighting - Dillon
- Sound - Peter Mielniczek
- Set Construction - David Lamkin, Jack Fitzgerald & Brian Fretwell
- Wardrobe - Ann Mattey
Reviews
At the Bell Theatre, Norwood High St, this week, SLTC are presenting an unusual show.
Written by David Neilson and directed by John Hartnett, it is called "Robin Hood: tThe truth behind the Green Tights".
Such a title, straining after cleverness and suggesting a pantomime, might well contravene the Trades Descriptions act, for the show is not really a pantomime at all, and signally fails to reveal much truth about anything.
It is nervertheless a bright and bold show, at least until well into the reaches of the second half, when it begins to lose its way. It goes on that little bit too long, and mixes seriousness wiht knockabout in a not altogether convincing way.
TBC
Donald Madgwick reprinted in SCENE from The Croydon Advertiser, by permission of the editor.
Gallery
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