Profiles - Softcover

Kenneth Tynan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854599437 ISBN 13: 9781854599438

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2007

Synopsis

50 of Kenneth Tynan's profiles of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day, including 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.

About this title

Review:

The real Tynan is contained in this collection of 50 profiles and theatre criticism... dazzling... top marks go to those who treat conversation as another chance to perform --Guardian

Synopsis:

Tying-in with publication of Tynan's "Theatre Writings" comes this new edition of his famous "Profiles" of star performers, writers and directors - with a preface by Simon Callow. This volume collects fifty of Tynan's best and sharpest pieces on the celebrities he most admired, largely from the world of showbiz. From his first tribute to Orson Welles in his school magazine to weighty assessments of Tom Stoppard and - most famously of all - Louise Brooks, the original Lulu, Tynan wrote dazzlingly about those who gave, in his own phrase, 'high-definition performances'. Other profiles include: WC Fields, Alec Guinness, Peter Brook, Arthur Miller, Lenny Bruce, Eric Morecambe, James Cagney, John Gielgud, Greta Garbo, Bertolt Brecht, Humphrey Bogart, Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Bernard Shaw, Joan Littlewood, Laurence Olivier, and Mel Brooks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1854599437
• ISBN 13: 9781854599438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Kathleen Tynan