This winter, the drama department will feature the play Robin Hood on Dec. 14-15 at 7:00 p.m. in the DGS auditorium. The story is based on the classic play but has a couple of differences.

English teacher and play director Nathaniel Haywood shares what the play is about.

“It is pretty much a little of interpretation of the Classic Robin Hood story … It is still following the same classic storyline where it is set in England. The sheriff of Nottingham is overtaxing the population and causing a great distress. So, Robin Hood rounds up the people to essentially fight back and he steals from the rich to give to the poor,” Haywood said.

Haywood also shares adjustments that were made to the play.

“The adjustments I would say are primarily in the characterization. Maid Marian, for example, is not a damsel in distress which is something that I really liked about the play. She has a decent amount of sword fights in the play as well — she can handle herself. There are things like that make it a more modern, retelling story,” Haywood said.

Haywood shares the reason behind why he chose the play and how it balanced out with the Juli(us) Caesar play.

“Initially, we were looking for a play to help balance with Juli(us) Caesar because we knew that was going to be an all female show. So we were looking for a play that was going to give a lot of our male actors’ opportunities but still be open for our female actors as well … I was looking for something that was a little more comedic but that wasn’t a straight comedy. Something that had some adventure in it and potentially that was more light-hearted but had a good message,” Haywood said.

Junior Caroline Venetis, who plays the role of Marian Harper, believes it was important to incorporate males in the winter play since the fall play, Juli(us) Caeser, was an all female cast.

“I think that it is good to an extent because for Juli(us) Caesar it is an all-female cast … Julius Caesar had no guys at all and some people were weary about it because the guys had nothing to do, but because of Robin Hood, there are a lot more guys, and it’s fun because the whole cast is so supportive … It’s a really good atmosphere,” Venetis said.

Robin Hood is adventurous with twists and turns. Junior Peter Burrows, who plays the lead role of Robin Hood, shares how he prepares for his role.

“There is a lot of character work that we started out with and a lot of accent development. So we had to practice talking as fancy British people and turns out that there were a bunch of different accents, so that was fun to work with. A lot of memorization,” Burrows said.

 Robin Hood is open to everyone. The audience can expect comedy, adventure and a dash of romance.

“I think that the viewers should expect a lot of laughs, a lot of action a little bit of romance sprinkled in there. Not overpowering but the right amount and the consistent time,” Haywood said.