Sailor Beware! (play)
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Sailor Beware! is a comic play by Philip King and Falkland Cary. After a repertory company production in Worthing in 1954, it opened in the West End of London on 16 February 1955 and ran for 1,231 per
From the 1955 London production: left to right Peggy Mount, Ann Wilton, Myrette Morven, Jean Burgess and Sheila Shand Gibbs
Kenneth Tynan
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Kenneth Peacock Tynan was an English theatre critic and writer. Initially making his mark as a critic at The Observer, he praised John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and encouraged the emerging wave of
Sailor Beware! (play)
…and commented that he laughed despite himself: "The farce may be preposterous [but] in its broad way it sweeps along the audience." In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan wrote that although the theme of the play was "as ancient as its development, whereby the husband-to-be jilts his bride", the authors' dialogue was…
Tynan in 1968
The grave of Kenneth Tynan in Holywell Cemetery in 2024