03-05-2025
Peter Hutley, 96: Entrepreneur and producer of popular Passion plays
A man known for his big ideas, the entrepreneur Peter Hutley surprised few people when he returned from a life-changing visit in 1989 to the Roman Catholic shrine at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina to announce that he would write and stage the Christian Gospel stories.
While the performances in the barn of his 1,000-acre Surrey home Wintershall started out as Nativity plays which his creative wife Ann put together, they became so popular that he wrote the full Life of Christ and in 2010 transferred the Passion play to Trafalgar Square. There they have continued to be performed annually to about 20,000 people on Good Friday.
For the millennium, Peter wrote The Life of Christ, a five-hour open-air depiction of the Annunciation through to the
