If you ask me one of the best things about the story of Robin Hood is the epic battles. This has been an awesome challenge for us with our modern adaptation. We’ve taken the anachronistic approach and have sword fights, a knife versus taser fight, a quarterstaff battle and much more. This past weekend we […]
This weekend Robin Hood moved in to Queen Elizabeth Park after several weeks of rehearsals at the Carousel Theatre studios. Moving a promenade show in to a park is an awesome process that involves taking the perfectly crafted scenes that were blocked in a nice quiet studio, ripping them apart and reassembling them to suit […]
As I write this I am very excited. I have recently made a fantastic discovery. Her name is Ren. She’s a young designer who came out of the blue and is making my Robin Hood directorial dreams a reality. The aesthetic concept for the show is garbage bag chic (thank you to The City for […]
The posters for our irreverent and modern adaptation of Robin Hood are being printed and posted this week. Rachale Cavanagh, our awesome poster/flyer designer, modified an image taken by Devon Taylor featuring Chris Wilson as Robin Hood (he’s not actually playing Robin Hood in the show though. Chris Cook is playing Robin Hood in the […]
Devon Taylor has been with ITSAZOO from day one. For the past few years she’s been the one behind the camera (as well as designing programs, running the bar, doing front of house and on and on). You may recognize some of the photos she’s taken for our shows… Robin Hood 2010 Meet Devon Taylor […]
We are the ZooCrew and this is our first ever blog post. Welcome to our world! ITSAZOO is a theatre company that began back in 2004 when 3 theatre students at the University of Victoria produced The Zoo Story for a Theatre Festival. It was such an awesome experience that they decided to keep going […]