Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynanwas an English theatre critic and writer. Making his initial impact as a critic at The Observer, he praised Osborne's Look Back in Anger, and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent. In 1963, Tynan was appointed as the new National Theatre Company's literary manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth2 April 1927
theatre instinct peeping
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
secret neurosis sanity
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.
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The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.
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Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.
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Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."