“I’m sorry. The adults are speaking. Surely you’re missed, at your mother’s teat.”
If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a big fan of calling out Robin Hood tropes and stomping all over them. The archery contest shows up in many different Robin Hood stories, and it's always baffled me how anybody could think it's a solid plan to catch him.
Incidentally, this line "Surely you're missed, at your mother's teat," was only spoken once in the original play, on closing night. I gave the Sheriff (played with excrutiating care by Glenn Freeze) an instruction to change the normal line (which was something far more boring) to this, because part of the fun of small theater is to throw monkey wrenches at your friends to see if you can get them to crack on stage. Nobod else in the scene knew about the new line, but most had to bite their lip or turn away to keep from laughing when Glenn delivered it.
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