An archer in Lincoln green tights and pointy hat emerges on stage and is promptly sent packing. He is not, in this version, the hero. The myth of Sherwood’s folkloric outlaw really has, as the title says, been rewritten, with rip-roaring results.
Carl Grose’s story of “Hood” and his outlawed accomplices is updated with a climate message and plenty of questions around land ownership, all shot through with Pythonesque humour and the occasional sounds of steel drums. As much of a medley as that may seem, the blend is outrageous, inventive and really rather brilliant.
