Research Catalog

Title

One man show : the stages of Barry Humphries / Anne Pender.

Author

Pender, Anne.

Publication

Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2010.

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Details

Description

viii, 453 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Authors, Australian > Biography
• Entertainers > Australia > Biography
• Comedians > Australia > Biography
• Humphries, Barry, 1934-2023

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780733325915 (pbk)
• 0733325912 (pbk)

OCLC

• 502990857
• SCSB-12080334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library