Robin Hood Rap

Fairy tales meet hip hop in this delightful version of Robin Hood. Students can play characters or rappers, and make up their own dance moves to go along with the raps! This play has a lot of flexibility in terms of cast size because you can add as many characters as you like. We have several other short fairy tale rap plays, so some students can play characters in one play, and rappers in other ones, allowing everyone a chance to have a colorful, meaningful part!

 
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Check out these other fantastic plays by Val Neubecker:
Santa's Little Reindeer Rap
Santa's Little Reindeer, The Musical
Cinderella Rap
Snow White Rap
Little Red Riding Hood Rap
Three Little Pigs Rap
Jack and the Beanstalk Rap
Space Travel Rap
Ghostly Rap
Little Miss Muffet

About the Playwright:

Val Neubecker lives in Perth, Australia. She wrote scripts for a theatre restaurant for 18 years and has had three children's books published. Her poems, short stories and plays have been published in The School Magazine, also NZ School Journal. She has published five e-books: The Rock, The School Photograph, What a Performance, An Alphabet of Australian Animals, and Santa's Little Reindeer. 'Ho! Ho! Ho! & Other Christmas Songs', features Val's work as a composer and lyricist. It also includes activities and worksheets to accompany the songs. Val is the Secretary and Poetry Coordinator for Creative Connections, an organization where poets write poems to works of art created by artists with disabilities.

Excerpt from the play:

CHARACTERS: 

NARRATOR
ROBIN HOOD
LITTLE JOHN
ALAN A’DALE
FRIAR TUCK
MAID MARIAN
MAN
KING RICHARD
RAPPERS (All other students in the class)

SETTING 1: The forest.

NARRATOR: 
In England, many years ago, King Richard the Lionheart left his country to fight in the Crusades. His brother, Prince John, was now in charge and he was not a nice person. He raised everyone’s taxes and made life miserable for them all.

RAPPERS:
He /taxed their/homes, he /taxed their /pay,
He /taxed them /all in /every /way,
He /taxed their /clothes, he /taxed their /food,
Prince /John was /just a /nasty /dude.

NARRATOR: 
His buddy, the Sheriff of Nottingham, threw people out of their homes if they couldn’t pay their taxes. So many people were poor. One man decided to go and live in the forest. His name was Robin Hood.

(ROBIN HOOD enters holding a bow & arrows.)

ROBIN HOOD:
This looks like a good spot. Hmm, it’s dinner time and there are no cafes in the forest. I’ll use my trusty bow and arrow to find something to eat. I think I’ll do a volley of arrows.

(ROBIN HOOD shoots four arrows in different directions.)

LITTLE JOHN:
(0ffstage) Aargh!

ALAN A’DALE:
(0ffstage) What?

FRIAR TUCK:
(0ffstage) Ouch!

MAIN MARIAN:
(0ffstage) Hey!

RAPPERS: 
He /sent some /arrows /through the /air,
He /wondered /what he’d /shoot out /there,
He /found some /targets, /it was /true,
But /were not /things that /he could /chew.

(LITTLE JOHN enters, arrow through hat)

LITTLE JOHN:
(removing arrow) WHAT are you doing?

(ALAN A’DALE enters with ukulele, holding arrow.)

ALAN A’DALE:
I just caught this mid-air.

(FRIAR TUCK enters, arrow through sleeve of costume.)

FRIAR TUCK:
What is this for, pray tell?

(MAID MARIAN enters, arrow through basket she is carrying.)

MAID MARIAN:
Who’s shooting arrows around here?

ROBIN HOOD:
Oh, that’d be me.