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Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer. Making his initial impact as a critic at The Observer (1954–58, 1960–63), he praised Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent. In 1963, Tynan was appointed as the new National Theatre Company's literary manager.

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Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

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Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common ...

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“A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great dr ...

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“A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.”

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“Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fi ...

“An office block made of prestressed celery.”