Kenneth Tynan

A dramatist is...

A dramatist is...

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

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Art and ideology...

Art and ideology...

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

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Art is parasitic...

Art is parasitic...

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Source: Ionesco...

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William Congreve is...

William Congreve is...

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his...

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A critic is...

A critic is...

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Source: New York Times...

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A good drama...

A good drama...

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

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A novel is...

A novel is...

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

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Pearl is a...

Pearl is a...

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

Source: On Oscar...

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Forty years ago...

Forty years ago...

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

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The sheer complexity...

The sheer complexity...

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

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No theater could...

No theater could...

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and...

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What, when drunk,...

What, when drunk,...

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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A good many...

A good many...

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

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Even the youngest...

Even the youngest...

Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of...

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Not content to...

Not content to...

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

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