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
Kenneth Tynan quotes about
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.
indulge-in luxury despair
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair.
oysters pearls disease
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
theatre world connections
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
vulnerable gregarious gifted
Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.