Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Kenneth Peacock Tynan NPG x125499

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Theatre critic. Born in Birmingham, the illegitimate son of a Midlands magnate, Tynan won a scholarship to Oxford from King Edward's School. He began his career with the Evening Standard. From 1954 to 1963 he wrote for the Observer, championing dramatists such as Osborne, Wesker, and Delaney, and the poetic drama of Eliot and Fry. He popularised Brecht and the Theatre of the Absurd in the work of Simpson and Beckett. A socialist and campaigner for nuclear disarmament,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.