Profiles
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback, 464 pages ISBN: 9781854599438Publication Date:
15 Feb 2007
Size: 199mm x 130mm£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)
Ebook, 464 pages ISBN: 9781788503068Publication Date:
22 Aug 2019
£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)

Profiles

By Kenneth Tynan Edited by Kathleen Tynan

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The only collection of Tynan's star-studded profiles, selected and edited by his widow and biographer, Kathleen Tynan, with a foreword by Simon Callow.

Kenneth Tynan was the 20th century's most influential writer on theatre and performance. Over the course of his life he wrote a series of brilliant and incisive pen-portraits of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day.

Amongst the fifty assembled here are profiles of 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.

'We had thought to have seen the last of Tynan. Now, suddenly, a new volume appears: a collection of fifty profiles of the famous... More than a third of the pieces are new - at least in book form - which in itself is cause enough for dancing... One does not have to like theatre to cherish these pieces... It is a book to savour in small doses, the better to postpone the sadness of reaching its end' Hugh Leonard

'Tynan was unique in that he combined the soul of an artist with the descriptive skill of a journalist... He was an ideal profile writer, as this book eloquently testifies' Michael Billington, Guardian

Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback,464 pages ISBN: 9781854599438Publication Date:
15 Feb 2007
Size: 199mm x 130mm£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)
Ebook,464 pages ISBN: 9781788503068Publication Date:
22 Aug 2019
£14.99 £11.99You save £3.00 (20%)

Also by Kenneth Tynan:

Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings

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