I Didn't Know The Green Lantern Comics

Someone Told Me That There's A Connection To Superman, That In An Early Edition Of The Green Lantern Comics, Tomar Re Was The Envoy To Krypton. That Was Fascinating To Me.

Like Any Classic You Hope To Get Rid Of All The Varnish That's Built Up Over The Centuries Where People Expect It To Be In A Certain Way. It's A Mighty Play. It's About A Very Old King Who Also Happens To Be A Very Old Father, So You've Got The State And The Domestic Levels In There Together. It's A Story In Extremis. Everyone Knows The End, There's Only Two People Left Alive.

When People Come And Tell Me I Was Terrific In This Or That, I Do Not Want To Fall Flat On My Face Next Time. But, Tough, I Have Fallen Flat Before. You Just Get Up And Dust Yourself Off.

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.

What I Appreciated Was The Fact That The Script Delved Into How Australians Were - And Still Are - Condescended To By The English.