Naas school's production of Robin Hood brings the action to Kildare!

St Corban’s Boy's National School's production of the classic tale of “Robin Hood” recently ran for three nights in the Moat Theatre, Naas.

All three nights were sold out and the school has thanked everybody who came to support the performances.

The school's version of Robin Hood transfers the action from Sherwood and Nottingham to The Curragh and Naas but the themes of charity versus greed, powerlessness versus power and love versus evil remain in place and are as relevant to us today as they were to the people in the time of King John.

Of course the school’s version has a few more pop songs than the original!

A production like this takes an enormous amount of planning and preparation and started almost as soon as our previous production, “Snow White”, ended.

Things really kicked into gear earlier in the school year when the production was formally announced to all the school.

The audition process for acting, singing and dancing roles followed and when these roles were cast it was time to begin promoting the show. A school wide poster competition was held for the design of the tickets, programme cover and promotional posters. R

ehearsals began in February and a backstage crew were selected from the 6th classes to work as stagehands.

The show is a school wide production and the school said it was immensely proud of all the boys in St Corban’s for their hard work, enthusiasm and talent that went in to this show.

The school thanked the parents, friends and relatives, for their unfailing support and encouragement of the boys, the staff of St Corban’s for all their hard work with the boys throughout the preparations for the show and the Moat Theatre for the venue and their help over the three nights.

Also thanked was Ms Carina McCarville whose talent, energy and commitment to the show is the single biggest driving force in producing the show.

Carina was producer, director, musical director, costume designer and set designer.