Kenneth Tynan citáty
Kenneth Tynan
Datum narození: 2. duben 1927
Datum úmrtí: 26. červenec 1980
Kenneth Tynan byl britský divadelní kritik.
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„Vypadá jako další v davové scéně od Hieronyma Bosche.“
— Kenneth Tynan
(en) He looks like an extra in a crowd scene by Hieronymus Bosch.
o Donu Ricklesovi
Source: [Tynan, Kenneth, Show people: profiles in entertainment, Simon and Schuster, 1979, 978-0-67125-012-6, 142, anglicky]
„Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom, and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: Useless, of course, to point out that the genesis of good plays is hardly ever abstract; that it tends, on the contrary, to be something as concrete and casual as a glance intercepted, a remark overheard, or an insignificant news item buried at the bottom of page three. Yet it is by trivialities like these that the true playwright's blood is fired. They spur him to story-telling; they bring on the narrative fit that is his glory and his basic credential. Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom, and I will show you the makings of a dramatist. Only the makings, of course: curiosity about people is merely the beginning of the road to the masterpiece: but if that curiosity is sustained you will find, when the rules have been mastered and the end has been reached, that a miracle has happened.
Pausing on the Stairs (1957)<!-- also quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2014 edition) -->
„People have always needed art: but why have they needed it?“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.
Review of The Necessity of Art (1959) by Ernest Fischer
„I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
„That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
„Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Curtains (1961), Context: Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
„A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.“
— Kenneth Tynan
As quoted in "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith in The New York Times (9 January 1966)
„Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand; he goes one further and clinches his fist.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Curtains (1961), On singer Frankie Laine
„A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping.“
— Kenneth Tynan
As quoted in The Life of Kenneth Tynan (1987) by Kathleen Tynan, p. 188
„A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Review of The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton (1961), p. 75
„We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Review of Altona, by Jean-Paul Sartre (1961), p. 97
„I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.“
— Kenneth Tynan
As quoted in "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith in The New York Times (9 January 1966)
„A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Article in the New York Herald Tribune (17 February 1957)
„John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre — a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.“
— Kenneth Tynan
"Decade in Retrospect: 1959" (1959), p. 13
