The drama critic Kenneth Tynan devised which controversial 1969 musical revue?
Kenneth Tynan of "Oh! Calcutta!" in 1969 was another important victory in that campaign. Tynan was fiercely against censorship and was determined to break taboos that he considered arbitrary. Tynan's left-wing politics and lifestyle made him something of a poster boy for 1960s radical chic and champagne socialism in London. He suffered a serious personal defeat in the National's internal battles over his support for the Rolf Hochhuth play "Soldiers", a controversial work highly critical of Winston Churchill, whose National Theatre production was eventually cancelled. An erotic revue which Tynan co-ordinated and partially wrote, called "Oh! Calcutta!", debuted in 1969 and became
Kenneth Tynan Kenneth Tynan Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer. Making his initial impact as a critic at "The Observer" (1954–58, 1960–63), he praised Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" (1956), and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent. In 1963, Tynan was appointed as the new National Theatre Company's literary manager. An opponent of theatre censorship, Tynan was considered by many to be the first person to say "fuck" on British television (although this is now disputed), which was controversial at the time. Later in his life, he settled in