Hood’s Mam has run off with a bacon licking vegetarian and her Dad spends his days and nights lost in a chair, feeding his addiction to ‘The Waterboys’.There’s no money left, there’s five struggling kids to feed and interfering Father Tuck just won’t let them be. But our modern day hero, Robyn Hood is determined to keep her family together, whatever it takes…
A modern day tale about family and food.
Katherine Chandler is a Welsh playwright who has had plays produced by National Theatre Wales, Bristol Old Vic, Sherman Cymru, Theatr Nan’Og, Spectacle Theatre and Dirty Protest. Her play Before it Rains won the Writers Guild Playwright award at the Theatre Critics of Wales Awards and was shortlisted for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn prize 2012.
Katherine was the inaugural winner of the BBC and National Theatre Wales, Wales Drama Award and was awarded a Creative Wales Award from Arts Council Wales. Katherine’s adaptation of Terry Jones’ fairy tales The Silly Kings won critical acclaim and was produced and performed by National Theatre Wales in Europe’s largest Spiegel tent, in the grounds of Cardiff Castle.
Whilst on attachment at the National Theatre studio, Katherine wrote her new play Bird which won the 2013 Bruntwood judges prize. Bird is now in development with the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre. BBC iplayer released Katherine’s first film Tag as part of the BBC3/BBC iplayer drama launch this year. Currently, Katherine is working on commissions for the National Theatre Wales, Sherman Cymru and BBC Drama.
