Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood at Creede Rep

Founded in 1966, Creede Repertory theatre is a gem of a professional theatre company located at 9,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. I’m so thrilled that they are producing my play Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood this summer.

Creede’s website features lovely production photos, but I am a particular fan of the photos below, taken during their July 4th parade—which I’m told included an impromptu sword-fight in the middle of the street! The play is running in repertory now through September 10th, so if you live in the area or your travel plans take you to beautiful mountains of Colorado, I hope you’ll stop by and see the show.

John Di Antonio, the artistic director of the theatre, is also directing this production. I love this note that he wrote about the play and wanted to share it with you here.

A note from director JOHN DIANTONIO

Welcome to Sherwood Forest! Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood is a story we all know. A simple story about the formation of a community—an ensemble, a team, a band of merry outlaws—bound by a common goal. Sort of like a repertory theatre located in the middle of the San Juan Mountains for the last 57 years. To quote Friar Tuck, “We need to turn back time to the moment when a band of outlaws, friends—outcasts, really—joined together here in Sherwood Forest to change the world, just a mite, one inch, one-one hundredth of an inch, that’s all that any of us can ever hope to accomplish—but we felt the need to fight injustice and want, and to make the world more kind.” After the fragility of these last two years, CRT is here to make the world kinder, one play at a time.

My three-year-old son, Leo, has fallen in love with Disney’s 1973 version of the Robin Hood tale, in which Robin is portrayed as a fox and Little John a bear. Leo is particularly taken by the moment when Lady Kluck, a hen and lady-in-waiting to Maid Marian, stampedes into a group of Nottingham Soldiers (a bunch of rhinoceroses) during the archery tournament. You won’t find charging Rhinos or fighting Chickens in our production, but I hope the feeling of magical excitement will be the same. For you are our denizens of Sherwood Forest. I hope you’ll join our community of outlaws to make the world more kind. Welcome.