The Heart of Robin Hood  David Farr | Oregon Shakespeare Festival - 2013  |  Photos: Jenny Graham

 

HOOD re-imagines Robin and Marion     - Register Guard

“Spectacular, fast-moving, highly entertaining…Certain to be an audience favorite this season…. Director Joel Sass keeps the cast working in overdrive, offering never a dull moment… A witty journey through Shakespearean tropes, mythical forests, gender-bending roles, mistaken identities and the power of the common man.”

 

Marion takes center stage in delightful OSF production      - Ashland Daily Tidings

“Joyfully and inventively directed by Joel Sass…an elaborate, campy retelling of a familiar fairy tale filled with slapstick humor, frequent asides to the audience, cross-dressing of both men and women and the more than occasional bawdy joke….”

 

For the Robin Hood, it's an epic journey     - Mail Tribune

“David Farr's revisionist Robin tale is stuffed as an English banger with Shakespearean memes. …Director Joel Sass propels things at the breakneck pace of melodrama, and it's all buoyed by stellar performances from Kate Hurster, whose loveliness can't hide Marion's inner steel, and John Tufts, whose facial expressions and body language trace the arc of the opening of his heart….”