Prompt #4: Robin Hood Panto

   I think I would describe this prompt as engaging comedy, smutty and with no specific plot. The jokes tat they had weren’t appropriate for 12 and under. This was an adult Panto because of all the dirty jokes that would say. This is why I have described it as smutty. The Panto would engage with the audience by talking to us, reacting to our comments and talking to some of the audience members in the beginning. Some characters would look at us and talk, others would actually ask us questions or make us answer after they said something or throw jokes that weren’t even part of the play but if real life events. This made it very interactive with the audience and kept us engaged through the whole performance. It is not similar to Broadway at all because Broadway may break the 4th wall sometimes but not as much as they did in the Panto. Most of the performance was them talking to us.

   When I say it had no plot I mean that even tho it had some line of story it was going for, it made no ad nothing to do with the original Robin Hood story. They had many scenes that had nothing to do with the story that was happening or at least did not seems connected. Another reason it was funny was that the character Robin Hood did not want to do the one storyline, he was uninterested and would try to avoid it. 

   In the show they wouldn’t always use the characters' names but the actors' real names. This made us have a more “personal” interaction with them. I thought that was creative that they would bring parts of their real lives here. In one scene Robin Hood talks to two characters and starts talking about how he is happy one of them returemed to do the Panto and welcomed a newcomer. This kind of dialogue also helped knowing how long they have worked together. In that scene he was also “teaching” little John how to act. 

    The reviews that I have seen are mostly good, even when they add 3 starts they still talk about good things. This was a cultural shock to me when Steve Sykes told us people here are more psessimistictowrds theater because they don’t want the actors to be too famous or think they are too good. I thought that was very interesting, but I could never do that if I think one thing or impone is good I would let them know because I know how hard of a self critic every music or theater artist are towards themselves.