Kenneth Tynan Quotes on Audience
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She shows herself to the audience like the Host to the congregation. (p. 217)
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I believe in neither a director's nor a writer's theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.