Kenneth Tynan - Plays Quotes

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The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Kenneth Tynan

A play... is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored.

Kenneth Tynan

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

Kenneth Tynan

Every speech, for Olivier, is like a mass of marble at which the sculptor chips away until its essential form and meaning are revealed. No matter how ignoble the character he plays, the result is always noble as a work of art.

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When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

Kenneth Tynan

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

Kenneth Tynan