“We feel that if the creative team were to take a step back from getting caught up in too many diverging paths from the original and found a more balanced tone, this show could really succeed, yet instead what is presented at the moment is more a workshop, than a polished production.”
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"This reinvention exists in limbo between send-up and sanctimony, a clever exercise in theory that is enervating to watch."
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While Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written is an admirable attempt to challenge the version of Robin Hood as we know it, the play has too many ingredients that blur the main storyline. The first half of the show is promising and has multiple twists with the characters often breaking the third wall keeping the audience on the edge of their seats but, in the second half, the theatrics and musical score take the spotlight, leaving many of these plots undeveloped.
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The idea of a Robin Hood retelling set outdoors, in a venue surrounded by trees at the stunning Regents Park Open Air Theatre is hugely appealing, allowing the audience to be immersed in the location. However, this alone cannot make a show successful and this production unfortunately fell short in every other area. Subsequently, this is a remake which misses the mark and begs me to wonder – why try to recreate something that is fine just as it was?
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“For all the brief, bang-on allusions to unjust land ownership, punishing taxation and eco-unfriendly road-building - the show never quite hits the theatrical bull’s-eye.”
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“The script has its moments of fun, but also feels in need of another edit or two. Best, I suppose, to treat it all as an early outbreak of panto in the sunshine.”
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"The entire intent of this show was never made clear and felt like a particularly under-rehearsed pantomime in parts. ... 'Robin Hood' was a show whose riches were few and far between and overall was poorly executed."
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“The show feels a little too twisty and messy at times but it is utterly winning too. The entire thing froths over with a great sense of fun and heaps of imagination. This is how to rewrite a legend: a must-see this summer.”
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