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4 unusual facts about Kenneth Tynan


Declaration of Reasonable Doubt

Orson Welles is included on the list on the basis of a comment taken from a collection of Kenneth Tynan interviews: "I think Oxford wrote Shakespeare. If you don’t agree, there are some awfully funny coincidences to explain away".

Encore Theatre Magazine

It was not an ideologically-driven magazine; it was not consistent; it admired the Royal Court, Theatre Workshop, Ionesco, Arden, and Tynan, and it often attacked all of these.

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Kenneth Tynan asserted that, "...(Davis) has done nothing better since The Little Foxes."

Maurice Flanagan

Kenneth Tynan, one of the competition judges, invited Flanagan to write for the National Theatre, where Tynan was literary advisor.


Theatres Act 1968

Kenneth Tynan, who was the first man to say "fuck" on British television, had been campaigning for liberalisation for many years, while John Osborne's play A Patriot for Me, brutally cut by the censor and put on at a private members' club, exposed the untenable nature of the system.


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Beverley Baxter

It was published in an undergraduate magazine Panorama edited by Kenneth Tynan, and Shulman mischievously showed the article to Charles Curran, the features editor, who passed it to Baxter who "was not amused."