Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971)

Robertson Davies and Tyrone Guthrie collaborated on this account of the founding of Canada's Stratford Festival in 1953 and its first season when two Shakespearean plays were famously performed in a tent. Davies contributed a thoughtful analysis of the plays, the costuming, the acting and staging. It made me wish I had been able to take one of his courses when he taught at University of Toronto, but it also made me feel that I had just attended a lecture or several given by a kind and show more instructive professor. The illustrations by Grant Macdonald, like slides in a well-organized lecture, contributed immensely to the whole effect. show less