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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.
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."
enneth Tynan, one of Britain's foremost drama critics, whose erudite and controversial opinions earned him a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic, died of pulmonary emphysema in Santa...
dramatic critic, educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He wrote for various papers, most influentially for the Observer (1954–63), and championed the plays of Osborne, Wesker, Delaney, Simpson, Beckett, and others, playing a leading role in the shift of taste from drawing‐room comedy and the poetic drama of T. S. Eliot and C. Fry (which he ...
Ken Tynan was, first and foremost, a drama critic who from 1954 to 1963 enlivened an English Sunday with his column in The Observer. It’s hard today to explain just how influential he was.
24 aug. 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 celebrated stints as a...
31 mai 2023 · Kenneth Tynan ( 2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was a British theatre critic, author and literary manager of London's National Theatre Conmpany for a decade from 1963.
