Word: tynan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Landau has not tried to present a tragedy. All the editors and commentators who place Troilus among the tragedies clearly have no idea what tragedy really is. Troilus is comedy, but very sour comedy. Kenneth Tynan recently seconded Orson Welles' view that Shakespeare was suffering from venereal disease during the period in which he wrote Hamiet, Troilus, and Measure for Measure. Such hypothesizing is dangerous; for that way madness lies. Yet it is true that these plays all present sexual relations as vile and tainted...
This short scene, which might be described as a grey-out, is the work of Jules Feiffer, 32, who was once slyly described by Critic Kenneth Tynan as "the best writer now cartooning." Tynan obviously overlooked James Thurber, but Feiffer appears to have taken the hint. His first stage work, a revue called The Explainers, which is running at Chicago's new Playwrights cabaret theater, in some ways recalls Broadway's A Thurber Carnival, but it has a wry. gentle note all its own. It is also part of a growing Chicago school of humor (although Feiffer himself...
...Kenneth Tynan called Caligula a "great bad play," which ranks it far above most of its contemporaries. Camus was on the side of the angels; so are Gullette and Milgrim; and so, therefore, is the Dunster House production...
...Michael Redgrave's chestnut-haired, statuesque (5 ft. 10½ in.) daughter Vanessa, 24, was appearing in Ibsen's rarely performed The Lady from the Sea as Boletta, the awkward elder daughter, and achieving a superb characterization after years of promising but unspectacular parts. Wrote Kenneth Tynan in the Observer: "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear...
...Critic Kenneth Tynan wonders whether Brechtian drama "is a gigantic tribute to motherhood." Brecht's men are usually drunks, cynics or compromisers, his heroines "mostly instruments of salvation . . . Did Brecht, as rumor insists, spurn his father and worship his mother? If so, it supports the old hypothesis that the men who adore their mothers lean toward the Left, while those who idolize their fathers lean toward the Right." Whether or not Tynan is correct about Brecht, he certainly has the makings of a fascinating psychological parlor game...