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- "The reason for Tynan's practical influence as a critic lay in his willingness to take an actively partisan role as a critic," wrote the playwright Jack Richardson. "It gave his writing a lively urgency that made theater reviewing seem something more crucial to society than wine-tasting."
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Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer. Initially making his mark as a critic at The Observer , he praised John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger (1956) and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent.
Jan 14, 2002 · But Kenneth Tynan, the most gifted theater critic since Hazlitt, gave up the reviewing game at the peak of his scintillating power to become Sir Laurence Olivier ’s literary manager at the new...
Aug 24, 2003 · Aug. 24, 2003. Kenneth Tynan, who died in 1980 at 53, was regarded by many people as the greatest drama critic since Shaw. On the staff of The Observer in London, he also served several...
Tynan’s rarest gift as a critic was his ability to capture in words the evanescence of live performance. “I mummify transience,” he wrote in the preface to his first book.
Nov 8, 1987 · Secretly. “English drama critic,” say the encyclopedists. “Immensely influential during the 1950s and ‘60s. Tynan eloquently supported the raw new drama of the ANGRY YOUNG MEN and was a leading...
The finest drama critic since George Bernard Shaw, architect of Olivier's National Theatre repertoire, deviser of the erotic revue Oh! Calcutta!, journalist and social reformer, Kenneth Tynan was, in Tom Stoppard's words, "the product of our time, but our time was of his making."
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer. Initially making his mark as a critic at The Observer, he praised John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger (1956) and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent.
