The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. Kenneth Tynan
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

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 English Critic
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

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

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 Audience English Critic
The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

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Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.

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A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

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

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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. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

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.

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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Kenneth Tynan

 English Critic
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. - Kenneth Tynan Quotes

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

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