A new version of the Robin Hood story to be staged in Wexford next month will offer a fresh perspective on the legendary tale.
With an Irish parish priest and two "loudmouth Dubs" in Deano and Deco among the characters, Wexford Pantomime Society's Robin Hood: Prince of Tights promises to be different from anything that's gone before.
Father Patrick Mernagh, the man in charge of the production, says it is high time the public knew the "true story" of Robin Hood. Whether the version created by society members Nicholas Roche and Thomas O'Leary does the job is debatable, but it's unlikely the audience will care.
Ms Caroline O'Connell, the self-styled "shameless publicity person" for the event, says those who witnessed the society's deconstruction of The Wizard of Oz a year ago, also written by Roche and O'Leary, might have some idea what to expect. Or perhaps not.
This is a story of peasants who are so poor they drink pints of mud, Dubliners who work as builders in the sheriff's castle and "the saddest excuse for soldiers in history". The event, the organisers promise, will be "just the thing for those post-Christmas blues".
Tickets for the show, which runs at the Dun Mhuire, Wexford, from Monday, January 8th, until Sunday, January 14th, are £5 each. The box office number is (053) 23061.
