Kenneth Tynan Quotes About Theatre

Quotes about: Theatre

• 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

  Drama, Criticism, Theatre

  'Tynan Right and Left' (1967) foreword

• The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Writing, Play, Effort

• Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Theatre, Instinct, Peeping

• 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

  Theatre, Connections, World

  "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 09, 1966.

• Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Drama, Self, Knowing

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