Here's an exerpt from a short Robin Hood parody I wrote for Twelve Balloon Theatre, the small outdoor community theatre I co-founded. This picks up right after Robbie meets John, and are looking for other men to joing Robbie's band of happy fellows. Hope you enjoy this little piece of insanity!
There's too much insanity here!
Al: And that's how Robbie Good began building his band of outlaws. Though he had many followers, only a few were as important to him as Big John. Two of his most reliable and loyal followers were men by the names of Will Orangeurple and Friar…uh…and a Friar. Robbie's meeting with those two was nearly as strange as his meeting with Big John. It happened on a day much like today… (toodles on his instrument a moment before going silent again.)
OPEN ON A FOREST GLADE, NOW VOID OF BRIDGES (ROBBIE enters with JOHN close behind)
Robbie: Isn't it a lovely day to look for members of our band of outlaws?
John: Uh…yeah….lovely.
Robbie: (hears something nobody else does) Listen! Do you hear that John!?
John: (listens) …hear what?
Robbie: It sounds to me like trespassers in our forest! We should hide, and when they come-
John: (ecstatic) onto the fight scene!!
Robbie: Precisely! Now, hide, and wait for my signal!
(the two hide in an "inconspicuous" spot as WILL and the FRIAR enter UL)
Will: I'm telling you father-
Friar: (correcting WILL) friar.
Will: (brushing the FRIAR'S correction to the side) whatever. Anyway, I know they're around here! They’ve just got to be!
Friar: Let's hope. I’d hate to think that you wasted all that time thinking up a nickname.
(ROBBIE hops out of hiding to face the intruders. JOHN follows suit. Both brandish heir swords)
Robbie: HAHA! We've caught you trespassing in our forest!
John: ON YOUR GUARD! PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR THE FIGHT SCENE!!
(WILL and the FRIAR look at each other and back at ROBBIE and JOHN. They are quite bemused)
Will: You're kidding.
Robbie: (taken aback) I beg your pardon?
Friar: You can't have the fight scene in the beginning of the play! It ruins the whole flow!
John: What do you mean?
Will: If we were to have the big fight scene now, what would we do for the finale?
Robbie: (looks at JOHN) I guess we never thought of that...but what will we do instead to see if you two are
worthy of joining us?
Friar: (already a step ahead of them, he is reading from a very large book) Well, it says here in "Ye Olde Third
Rate Fight Scene Rule Book" that we are to negotiate strenuously throughout the afternoon, till the challenging party, that would be you, decides to accept us.
John: We're really supposed to do that?
Will: (he is reading ahead in the script) Well, the script says we are.
Robbie: Then I suppose we haven't got much of a choice have we?
(WILL and the FRIAR shake their heads. ROBBIE shrugs and the four sit down on the grass. AL speaks up)
Al: And so they debated the afternoon away, and Robbie found that he and the young stranger, whose name was Will, had much more in common than they first believedRobbie believed Will and the Friar would make a grand addition to the band.
(Al goes back to being quiet, as Robbie stands up and brushes himself off)
Robbie: I think I speak for both Big John and myself when I say that you are a welcome addition to our group. Have you got a nickname?
Will: Well, I was thinking something along the lines of Will the Thrill… eh? Eh?
Robbie: (thinks a moment) No...you need something more...more...you.
Will: What do you suggest?
Robbie: Lessee…you're dressed in orange and purple….how about… (snaps) I KNOW! Henceforth, you shall be known as Will Orangeurple!!
Will: (makes a face) if you insist...
Robbie: And I do....