3 Kenneth Tynan Quotes on Audience

Kenneth Tynan quotes on audience

22. She shows herself to the audience like the Host to the congregation. (p. 217)

24. 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.

30. Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.