Great Idea question

[Hannah High]

In the 1st Peter Pan Great Ideas interview, what's the name of the one who considered Peter Pan and Hamlet to be the finest plays in the English language...? I've listened to Andrew again, but everytime I type out that name by sound, google and whatever is in my skull draws a blank...

[Robert Greenham]

Hannah, the answer to your question is Tyrone Guthrie (Sir William Tyrone Guthrie - 1900-1971), a British theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada and the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, USA.  By a strange coincidence, he was born in Tunbridge Wells, England, just a few miles from where I live.  You can find much about him on the internet, including a useful summary from which I have just quoted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Guthrie

[andrew]

Hi Hannah hi... Tyrone Guthrie's your man. He also said that Peter should be played "as delicate as a moth, as deadly as a bomb" ...

[Hannah High]

Many thanks for answering my question, Robert! You led me to a satifying answer as well as opening more curiosity...



And yes, Andrew, I hardly need tell you those words of his always stuck me...even though I didn't know who was saying them.



Something inside sparks, so must go onward in meeting Guthrie...better get reading. Though, to be honest I'm being pulled at a couple hundred different angles by quite a lot of different books and subjects, and at this rate, I won't ever be finished...that doesn't sound so bad actually, so...another game, Peter!