“An excellent day for a ride. I certainly hope we don’t get mauled by a bear
This was an improvised line in the play by Will Scarlet (Jaycob Hunter), which changed every night.
This scene, with Robin's crew practicing their thievery skills, exists specifically because of the limitations of the stage. When I was first writing the play I knew we needed to see a "typical" Robin Hood robbery take place, in which they very gentlemanly stop a carriage on the road and rob its owners of their valuables. But again, on a small stage there was no way of having a horse and carriage enter, which meant I had to get creative. I originally thought of only telling about the robbery after the fact from its victim's point of view, but eventually decided on seeing them pantomime their robbery in practice, which required no extra sets or actors, and opened up the scene for a lot more levity.
