Characters: 14 male, 7 female, plus extras, doubling possible

Scenery: representational sets

Blamire has synthesized the conflicting legends and ballads about the outlaw folk hero and created a hysterical, sprawling, action-packed drama. Besides ably retelling the legend, he has created roles that challenge and reinvent the myth. Includes a wise-cracking, superior swords person in Marian, and a Robin who only by chance finds himself a hero. But true to the legend, of course, all ends well: The Sheriff's sleazy scheme to wed and bed young Ellen fizzles, King John's vicious taxes are...

What is at the heart of a vast conspiracy that involves very round hedges, something that gobbles, a strange macaroon-headed man, a mysterious parchment and men in horribly striped ties? It's up to Doc Armstrong, the world's most renowned meteographer, the man who took down The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, to get to the bottom of it, along with his loyal 1950s housewife wife Betty, alien friends Kro-Bar and Lattis, and Ranger Brad's town brother City Brad, formerly Jungle Brad but he's in the city now. Together they face overwhelming odds as powerful forces seek to change the world we know into...