Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings  7290

  • Preface   Matthew Tynan
  • Foreword   Tom Stoppard
  • Introduction

1945

  • The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder, with Vivien Leigh)
  • Oedipus Rex and The Critic (with Laurence Olivier)
  • Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (with Ralph Richardson)

1946

  • King Lear (with Laurence Olivier)

1951

  • Profile of Vivien Leigh

1952

  • King Lear (with Donald Wolfit)
  • The Wandering Jew (with Donald Wolfit)
  • Guys and Dolls (Frank Loesser)

1954

  • Separate Tables (Terence Rattigan)
  • ‘Apathy’ (The ‘Loamshire’ Play)
  • The Immoralist (André Gide)
  • ‘Dead Language’ (The lack of new writing)
  • ‘Indirections’ (Directing)

1955

  • ‘Big Three’ (Comédie Française, Compagnie Renaud Barrault, TNP)
  • ‘Convalescence’ (Bad Drama)
  • Serious Charge (Phillip King, censorship)
  • Volpone (Theatre Workshop)
  • The Lesson (Eugene Ionesco)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams, New York)
  • Twelfth Night (with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, directed by John Gielgud)
  • Tiger at the Gates (Jean Giraudoux)
  • Moby Dick (Orson Welles)
  • Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
  • ‘Post Mortem’
  • Ondine (Jean Giraudoux)
  • Bed Bug (Mayakovsky) (Moscow)
  • ‘The Russian Way’ (Moscow)
  • Anniversary Waltz (Chodorov and Fields)

1956

  • ‘Payment Deferred’ (The need for a National Theatre)
  • ‘Art for Our Sake’ (Propaganda Plays)
  • ‘The Vice of Versing’ (Dramatic Poetry)
  • The Threepenny Opera (Brecht, Royal Court)
  • Othello (with Richard Burton and John Neville)
  • Tabitha (Ridely and Borer, an Tynan demolition)
  • ‘Young Lion’s Den’ (Encore magazine)
  • A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller)
  • The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), The Mulberry Bush (Angus Wilson, Royal Court)
  • The Chalk Garden (Enid Bagnold, with Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft)
  • ‘Manhattan and the Musical’ (New York)
  • Look Back in Anger (John Osborne, Royal Court)
  • The Quare Fellow (Brendan Behan, directed by Joan Littlewood)
  • The Family Reunion (T. S. Eliot, directed by Peter Brook)
  • ‘A Critic of the Critic’ (Theatre Criticism)
  • ‘Hindsight View’ (End-of-season review)
  • ‘Welsh Wizardry’ (Berliner Ensemble)
  • Timon of Athens (with Ralph Richardson), A River Breeze
  • ‘Dodging the Ban’ (Theatre Censorship)
  • The Children’s Hour (Lillian Hellman)
  • ‘Dramatic Capital of Europe’ (Berlin)
  • ‘Berlin Postscript’
  • A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller)
  • Much Ado About Nothing (directed by John Gielgud)
  • Nude with Violin (Noel Coward), The Bald Prima Donna, The New Tenant (Eugene Ionesco)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank (Goodrich and Hackett)
  • The Country Wife (directed by George Devine, with Joan Plowright)
  • ‘Backwards and Forwards’ (End-of-year review)

1957

  • ‘The Way Ahead’ (The Method)
  • The Life of Galileo (Berlin)
  • ‘A Matter of Life’ (The Observer Play Competition)
  • ‘In All Directions’ (Director’s Theatre’)
  • The Master of Santiago (Henry de Montherlant, with Donald Wolfit)
  • Epitaph for George Dillon (John Osborne and Anthony Creighton)
  • A Hatful of Rain (Michael Gazzo, with and directed by Sam Wanamaker)
  • The Iron Duchess (William Douglas-Home)
  • The Entertainer (John Osborne, with Laurence Olivier)
  • Tea and Sympathy (Robert Anderson, censorship)
  • ‘Out of Touch’ (John Whiting)
  • ‘Closing the Gaps’ (English Stage Company)

1958

  • ‘The Court Revolution’ (Royal Court)
  • ‘Ionesco: Man of Destiny’

1959

  • ‘Look Behind the Anger’ (End-of-year review)

1960

  • ‘What the Crystal Ball Foretells’ (Looking Ahead to the 1960s)
  • ‘Three for the Seesaw’ (The Deadlock of English Theatre)
  • ‘Dead Spot in Drama’ (Satire)

1961

  • ‘The Breakthrough That Broke Down’ (Retrospect on New Wave Drama)

1964

  • The National Theatre: A Speech to the Royal Society of Arts

1965

  • ‘The Royal Smut-Hound’

 

  • Epilogue

Topics covered by this book

  1. Pauken und Trompeten (drama) • review of 1956 Berliner Ensemble tour to Palace Theatre
  2. Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (drama) • review of Berliner Ensemble production at the Paris Drama Festival in 1955, and of the Berliner Ensemble at the Palace Theatre in 1956
  3. Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (drama) • review of Joan Littlewood's 1955 production, and of 1956 Berliner Ensemble tour to the Palace Theatre
  4. A Touch of the Sun (drama) • review of 1958 production
  5. The Tenth Chance (drama) • review of 1958 Royal Court production
  6. Variation of a Theme (drama) • review of 1958 production
  7. A Taste of Honey (drama) • review of 1958 production directed by Joan Littlewood
  8. Krapp’s Last Tape (drama) • review of 1958 production
  9. The Hostage (drama) • review of 1958 production directed by Joan Littlewood
  10. The Last Joke (drama) • review of 1960 production
  11. I’m Talking About Jerusalem (drama) • review of 1960 production
  12. Roots (drama) • review of 1960 production
  13. Chicken Soup with Barley (drama) • review of 1958 production
  14. The Caretaker (drama) • review of 1960 production
  15. Beyond the Fringe (drama) • review of 1961 production
  16. Luther (drama) • review of 1961 production with Albert Finney
  17. The Chances (drama) • review of 1962 Chichester production with Laurence Olivier at Chichester
  18. The Broken Heart (drama) • review of 1962 Chichester production with Laurence Olivier
  19. Chips with Everything (drama) • review of 1962 production
  20. Дядя Ваня (drama) • review of 1962 Chichester production with Laurence Olivier and Michael Redgrave
  21. Macbeth (drama) • review of 1952 production with Ralph Richardson, directed by John Gielgud
  22. Macbeth (drama) • review of 1955 production with Laurence Olivier
  23. Richard II (drama) • review of 1955 Old Vic / Theatre Workshop production
  24. Cymbeline (drama) • review of Peter Hall's 1957 production
  25. Titus Andronicus (drama) • reviews of Peter Brook's production with Laurence Olivier from both 1955 and 1957
  26. Richard III (drama) • review of 1944 production with Laurence Olivier
  27. Hamlet (drama) • review of 1944 production with John Gielgud and two reviews of 1955 production directed by Peter Brook (one on tour in Russia, one at the Phoenix)
  28. My Fair Lady (drama) • review of 1958 production
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