How do you make a version of Robin Hood that people haven't seen before? How do we take characters that everybody has a preconceived idea about and challenge those perceptions? These were some of the questions I asked myself as I started thinking about this production. As I thought more about what to do I found myself coming to the same conclusion, maybe it was the way we are taught to present and view theatre is where my issues are based. 

We, as theatre artists, are taught to hide the magic that makes the final performance possible and I ask, "Why do that at all?" So I decided to show some of the process of making a play by showing you a rehearsal that becomes a play. You as an audience not only see the world of the play built in front of you, but you will become active participants in the play itself. I did this because I wanted to remind the adults what it was like to pretend as a child, and for children to see that theatre is imagination come alive.

Robin and the Merry Men of Sherwood are heroes that we all want to be. People who look out for one another and those that are oppressed and marginalized by people in power. That is what I tried to remind all of us about as I weaved this tale together, with the help of these merry accomplices of actors, designers, and stage managers, and of course you friends. 

So sit back laugh, cheer, and remember as our somewhat true tale unfolds...Huzzah!

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Jason A, Speicher

Director, ​The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood