Author: Kathleen Tynan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857992663
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 467
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Kathleen Tynan traces her husband's life from his illegitimate birth, through his rebellious years at Oxford, to his career as the first post-war British myth - actor, director, writer, flamboyant personality and provocateur of the establishment on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author: Kenneth Tynan
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781854599438
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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The only collection of Tynan's star-studded profiles. Selected and edited by his widow and biographer, Kathleen Tynan, with a foreword by Simon Callow. Kenneth Tynan – the 20th century's most influential writer on theatre and performance – wrote profiles of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day. Amongst the fifty assembled here are profiles of actors such as Garbo, Bogart, Cagney, Olivier and Gielgud; the directors George Cukor, Peter Brook and Joan Littlewood; writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; and comedians as diverse as Mel Brooks, Eric Morecambe, W.C. Fields and Lenny Bruce. 'We had thought to have seen the last of Tynan. Now, suddenly, a new volume appears: a collection of fifty profiles of the famous... More than a third of the pieces are new - at least in book form - which in itself is cause enough for dancing... One does not have to like theatre to cherish these pieces... It is a book to savour in small doses, the better to postpone the sadness of reaching its end' Hugh Leonard 'Tynan was unique in that he combined the soul of an artist with the descriptive skill of a journalist... He was an ideal profile writer, as this book eloquently testifies' Michael Billington, Guardian
Author: Kenneth Tynan
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780747558415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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One of the publishing sensations of the year' Daily Telegraph..'Packed with scandal and salacious anecdotes about his famous friends and, believe me, it is premier-cru gossip' Tatler
Author: Kenneth Tyler
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780425047507
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Explores the talent, genius, and character of five major figures representing diverse aspects of theatricality and entertainment: Louise Brooks, Sir Ralph Richardson, Johnny Carson, Tom Stoppard, and Mel Brooks
Author: Tracy Tynan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501123688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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"The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her early years shaped her relationships and career, "--NoveList.
Author: Dominic Shellard
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300099195
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) lived one of the most intriguing theatre lives of the twentieth century. A brilliant writer, critic and agent provocateur he made friends or enemies of nearly every major actor, playwright, impresario and movie mogul of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Working on each side of the Atlantic during various periods in his career, Tynan wrote for the Evening Standard, the Observer, and the New Yorker; was lured by Laurence Olivier in the early 1960s to become dramaturg of Britain's newly formed National Theatre; and spent his final years in Los Angeles. This biography offers the first complete appraisal of Tynan's powerful contribution to post-war British theatre, set against the context of the fifties, sixties and seventies of his own turbulent life. Shellard proves beneath the celebrity myths to uncover Tynan the private man and theatre genius. He draws on Tynan's own extensive personal papers and diaries, taped interviews with theatre professionals who knew him and fascinating letters to such correspondents as Tennessee Williams, Marlene Dietrich, George Devine, Peter Brook, Alec Guiness and Terence Rattigan. Shellard highlights Tynan's early writings, when the brilliant young critic came to national prominence, and discusses how Tynan gained a left-wing readership, took his place at the vanguard of the new realist movement, and helped to establish subsidized theatre. He shows how, through indefatigable battles against theatre censorship and railings against the myopia of a politically and culturally insular Britain, Tynan helped create some of the most controversial theatrical events of the 1960s and 70s, including Oh Calcutta! Exploring the public and private sides of Tynan, Shellard reveals an outspoken, explicit and sometimes savage critic who ranks among the most influential theatre figures of the twentieth century.
Author: Kenneth Tynan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The best of Tynan's theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard - with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.Kenneth Tynan was the 20th century's most influential theatre critic. Famous above all for championing the Angry Young Men at the Royal Court and for heralding Brecht, Beckett and Pinter, his writing was itself a 'high-definition performance' - stylish, discerning and scintillatingly witty.This volume collects over 100 of his reviews, including his astonishingly accurate assessments of the first ever performances of Waiting for Godot; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; A View from the Bridge; The Entertainer; A Taste of Honey; and Beyond the Fringe. Also included are articles on such topics as Broadway musicals, censorship, Bertolt Brecht and, his pet hobby-horse, the need for a National Theatre, where he was to be Olivier's right-hand man.
Author: Kenneth Tynan
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: Kenneth Tynan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bullfighters
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: Kenneth Tynan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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