Heroes!

Some of our LEWIT students were the merry men at the English Theatre performance of “Rob and the Hoodies” in Innichen last week. They looked great, and acted marvellously, and the audience was enthusiastic! Can you get more heroic than that?

In this story, which takes place in the modern city of Nottingham in the Midlands region of England, and which has been adapted into a school play, there are good and evil characters. After lots of fights and intrigues, the good wins over the evil and lives as ‘hero’ happily ever after. Heroes are always wanted and needed. Film versions all over the world make these characters even more popular and heroic, as the action film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by Sir Ridley Scott and starring Russell

Crowe, being the opening movie of the Cannes Film Festival, and which has now hit the cinemas.

But – do we actually know if the good characters are really so good, or the bad characters are really so evil? Rob, the main character, puts it right: “We choose someone to be a hero but we don’t really know anything about the true story... It just depends who is telling the story.”