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Kenneth Tynan

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Also known as Kenneth Peacock Tynan, Ken Tynan

English theatre critic and writer (1927-1980)

Person · Open Library

Born
1927
Died
1980
Works
39

Top works

  • Just plain folks
  • Kenneth Tynan, letters
  • Prologue to Oh! Calcutta!
  • The tragedy of Macbeth
  • The diaries of Kenneth Tynan

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Type
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Listeners
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Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
  • Lenny Bruce ... [is] the most original, free-speaking, wild-thinking gymnast of language this inhibited island has ever engaged to amuse its citizens.
  • [A]t the end he had broken through frontiers of language and feeling that one had hitherto thought inviolable ...
  • I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
  • I doubt if there are very many rational people in this world to whom the word "fuck" is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden.
  • Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

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