Bay Harbour: February 01, 2017
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PAGE 4 BAY HARBOUR<br />
Wednesday <strong>February</strong> 1 2<strong>01</strong>7<br />
News<br />
Actors swap roles in popular<br />
BRAND NEW TWIST: Nick Cheesebrough as Lady Marian and Sophia Benter-Lynch as Robin<br />
Hood in a new adaptation for the Anthony Harper Summer Theatre production of Robin Hood.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
NICK CHEESEBROUGH has<br />
played a wide scope of leading<br />
roles – from the gentle Tinman<br />
in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<br />
to gambler Harry the Horse in<br />
musical Guys & Dolls.<br />
But never did he think he<br />
would play what is traditionally<br />
a leading lady role.<br />
The 19-year-old of Purau<br />
is playing a more masculine<br />
version of Lady Marian in a new<br />
adaptation of Robin Hood.<br />
“I didn’t think I would be<br />
playing a love interest anytime<br />
soon,” he said.<br />
A new production of the<br />
English legend was created by<br />
Daniel Pengelly for the city<br />
council’s Anthony Harper<br />
Summer Theatre production.<br />
And the Riccarton House<br />
grounds has transformed into<br />
Sherwood Forest as the tale of<br />
Robin Hood and her adventures<br />
is brought to the city.<br />
While most of the storyline<br />
remains the same, the show has<br />
a new twist with all characters’<br />
genders roles being switched.<br />
Cheesebrough describes his<br />
reinvented character as a buff<br />
jockey sort of guy with a few<br />
insecurities.<br />
The former Cashmere High<br />
School student said his character<br />
is still the damsel-in-distress<br />
and the love interest of Robin<br />
Hood.<br />
“They meet by chance and<br />
instantly have the look of love<br />
and fall in love. Love at first site<br />
. . . then it is Robin saving him<br />
from the Sheriff of Nottingham,”<br />
he said.<br />
The show was inspired by<br />
1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of<br />
Thieves starring Alan Rickman<br />
and Kevin Costner.<br />
Classic characters such<br />
as the infamous Sheriff of<br />
Nottingham is played by Carrie<br />
Green, Friar Tuck by Millie<br />
Hanford and Robin Hood by<br />
Sophia Benter-Lynch.<br />
Benter-Lynch, of St Martins,<br />
said it is an empowering play for<br />
families – especially for those<br />
taking their daughters.<br />
“Even though Robin Hood is<br />
a young woman she is still great<br />
at leading this army. People<br />
actually follow her and it is a<br />
great message to the youth of<br />
today,” she said.<br />
Both Cheesebrough and<br />
Benter-Lynch are members<br />
of The Court Theatre Youth<br />
Company.<br />
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