Profiles - Softcover

Tynan, Kenneth; Tynan, Kathleen; Eban, Ernie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060965576 ISBN 13: 9780060965570

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

Shares impressions of Bertolt Brecht, Noel Coward, George Cukor, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Arthur Miller, Laurence Olivier, Tom Stoppard, and Orson Welles

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

About the Author:

Kenneth Tynan was born in April 1927 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, which he left to become drama critic of the Evening Standard in 1951. He moved to the Observer in 1954, where he wrote on theatre every week until he left in 1962 to join Laurence Olivier's new National Theatre as its Literary Manager - and later Consultant. He died in July 1980. A selection of his Theatre Writings is published by NHB. Also published since his death are his Diaries and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0060965576
• ISBN 13: 9780060965570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 437