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A Portrait of the Artist as Australian
A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "second career" as author of twenty-nine books. With an oeuvre that includes novels, biographies, autobiographies, editions, compilations, comic books, poetry, dramatic monologues, sketches, film scripts, and several unclassified works, Humphries is a literary and dramatic artist of considerable significance. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, Paul Matthew St Pierre reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian.
The Many Lives of Barry Humphries
Actor, comedian, raconteur, writer, poet, painter, songwriter, music lover and one of the most gifted artists of the last century, Barry Humphries was an Australian global superstar. In this affectionate tribute, Rowan Dean, one of the last people to spend time alone with his friend Barry, reminisces the many lives of Barry Humphries with a plethora of Humphries' closest colleagues and associates about their unique and untold personal relationships with the extraordinary creator of Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson. Discover the unbelievable richness and surprises of the many, many lives of Barry Humphries in The Many Lives of Barry Humphries.
One Man Show
Satirist, comedian and burlesque entertainer, Barry Humphries enthralls audiences across the globe. As housewife megastar Edna Everage, he savages-and enchants-all in his path. His shambolic diplomat, Les Patterson, shocks and titillates, while Sandy Stone, poignant chronicler of suburbia, can bring audiences to tears. In his fifty years performing, he has avoided scrutiny of his true self-and the influences that help shape his characters. This book examines the life, and the aspirations, of this enormously talented artist. From his youthful pranks on the staid streets of Melbourne, the phenomenon that was Barry Mackenzie, and the dark years of alcoholism, through to his successes on television and Broadway, this book reveals the truth of Humphries' world.
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An account of his life up to the present. He tells with candour of his schooldays, his troubled Australian adolescence, his creation of Dame Edna Everage.
Barry Humphries
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Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation
In 1989 the author spent a month in the wings of the Theatre Royal watching Barry Humphries perform as Dame Edna Everage. What emerges is an account of the act and a portrait of the comedian and his art.
Rarely Everage
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My Life as Me
Barry, you used to be so nice, Louisa Humphries frequently said to her son. Now, in his maturity, the Australian comedian reflects on his long journey away from niceness.
The Real Barry Humphries
Large-print edition of a biography of an Australian comedian who has bemused and amused audiences world-wide through his alter ego Edna Everage.
Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization
In this brilliant and award-winning book, Lahr takes us backstage with Barry Humphries and into the weird and wonderful world of his show-stopping creation -- Dame Edna Everage. Humphries is a prodigious comic talent. His co-presence in Edna -- a character very real to the public -- actively invites speculation about reality and fantasy, male and female. Hilarious and malign, polite and rude, high-brow and very low, the character Humphries inhabits is a bundle of contradictions. Lahr investigates how a provincial dandy from Melbourne, Australia, transformed himself into one of the most unlikely megastars of today. In showing the connection between Humphries' comedy and the life it parodies, Lahr explores the nature of comedy and what makes us laugh. Photos.
