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Dame edna everage and the rise of western civilization : backstage with barry humphries

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  • "This insider's account of a great clown takes us backstage with Barry Humphries at London's Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, and into the weird and wonderful world of his show-stopping creation--Dame Edna Everage. Humphries is a prodigious comic talent. His copresence in Edna actively invites speculation about reality and fantasy, male and female. Hilarious and malign, polite and rude, highbrow and very low, the character Barry Humphries inhabits is a bundle of contradictions. Award-winning critic John Lahr, the son of another comic genius, takes us behind the scenes to investigate how a provincial dandy from Melbourne transformed himself into one of the most unlikely megastars of today. In showing the connection between Humphries's comedy and the life it parodies, this book goes beyond reportage to an exploration of the nature of comedy, an absorbing inquiry into what makes us laugh.--From publisher description."
  • "An insider's account of a great clown and a great act. Lahr takes us backstage at London's Theatre Royal with Barry Humphries, and into the weird and wonderful world of his show-stopping creation--Dame Edna Everage. Dame Edna--a character so real to the public that her autobiography, My Gorgeous Life, appeared on the nonfiction list--actively invites speculation about reality and fantasy, male and female. Hilarious and malign, polite and rude, highbrow and very low, the character Barry Humphries inhabits is a bundle of contradictions. John Lahr, the son of another comic genius, takes us behind the scenes to investigate how a provincial dandy from Melbourne transformed himself into one of the most unlikely megastars of today. In showing the connection between Humphries's comedy and the life it parodies, Lahr goes beyond reportage to an exploration of the nature of comedy.--From publisher description."

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