In Bed With Robin Hood
Drum Theatre, Plymouth Dec. 2005

Review from BBC

Scoring A Bullseye!
By Elaine McFadyen

Wonder boys, Kesselofski & Fiske, have sharpened their arrows, as well as their wits, to whiz through the life loves of English "hero" Robin Hood. The journey includes singalong, sword fighting and barbed satire while wearing wrinkly green tights.

Wrinkly Tights and Crinkly Faces...

Maybe it's something they put in the water in Sweden but Kesselofski & Fiske are more than just a little bit crazy.
Well they don't have good looks so they better be funny…and they are. Their visits to the Drum have become the event of the Christmas Season for many people looking for a good laugh and a lot of silliness.
Of course the boys would be nothing without "Sven," their Swedish technician who brings the show to life in his own shy retiring way.
For this production they have also employed the talents of a specialist "Tights Consultant" called Jeanette.

"Retching Wretched" Robin

The audience opens the show with a rousing version of the theme song from the Robin Hood TV series while the actors get into character and costume.
Paul Kessel stars as the hero and John Fiske plays everyone else.  Act 1, scene 1, Robin sits up in bed and vomits into a bowl…setting the tone of the piece.
Robin goes through the wardrobe, in a parody of the Narnia story, and travels back to the 12th century to view his life and its consequences.
The Sheriff of Nottingham picks up his lute to deliver a song featuring the Three Musketeers, Martin Luther King’s "Dream" and Churchill’s wartime rousing call to battle. Only K&F could rhyme Belly with Boticelli….Oh no they can’t, Oh yes they can!
As usual the set is a masterpiece if just a bit on the minimal side, although with their massive acting talents, scenery would just be a distraction.
The quick costume changes are seamlessly executed and the wigs are groomed to perfection – well no, not really but it all adds to the charm of the production.
Communism and McCarthyism get a poke in the eye by Robin and the Sheriff as they try to work out just who is the bad guy in the end.
Was Robin really a hero or just a common thief? Actually he was a miracle of medicine as he gives birth and delivers the ultimate line "Dying is the last thing I’m going to do". Funny? I almost split my crotch!