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Barry Humphries

    John Barry Humphries è stato un comico, satirico e artista australiano, noto soprattutto per i suoi alter ego teatrali e televisivi, Dame Edna Everage e Sir Les Patterson. La sua opera è caratterizzata da un'acuta satira e da un umorismo dadaista, attraverso i quali commentava fenomeni sociali e culturali. Oltre a scrivere e recitare, si è dedicato anche alla pittura e al teatro, dimostrando la sua versatilità.

    The Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman
    Punch Lines
    Less Is More Please
    My Life as Me
    Women In The Background
    More Please. An Autobiography
    • My Life as Me

      A Memoir

      • 374pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Described by Barry Humphries as a cubist self-portrait, this autobiography revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this memoir, his various fascinations are explored: painting, travel, marriage and divorce, and his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and many others.

      My Life as Me2002
      3,5
    • Women In The Background

      A Novel

      • 355pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Barry Humphries's first novel. Mrs Petty is a famous housewife with a successful TV show. She is also Derek Pettyfer - fiftyish, cultured, set in his ways. His arrival at any party, however sophisticated, always provokes a discreet little frisson amongst the guests. But Derek is also lonely.

      Women In The Background1997
      3,0
    • Mein schrilles Leben

      • 411pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Dame Edna Everage - Hausfrau, Megastar, investigative Journalistin, Sozialanthropologin, Kinderbuchillustratorin, Chanteuse, Swami, Monstre sacre, Universalgelehrte, Beraterin der britischen Königsfamilie, Trauerberaterin, Spin-Doktorin und begabte Frau in der heutigen Welt. Die Samen des Ruhms wurden in Melbourne, Australien, gesät, als ihre Karriere als Darstellerin zunächst nur eine Kultanhängerschaft hatte. In den 1960er Jahren trat sie in einer Reihe von Soloshows und gelegentlichen Bühnen- und TV-Auftritten in England mit Barry Humphries auf. Sie verbringt ihre Zeit mit Besuchen bei Weltführern und dem Jetset zwischen ihren Wohnsitzen in Malibu, London, Sydney und der Schweiz. Ihre Hobbys sind Nachmittags-Tee mit Stephen Hawking und mitfühlende Fotografie.

      Mein schrilles Leben1994
      3,0
    • Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished his biographers with half-truths and fiction, but now he has written his own account of his life. He tells of his schooldays, his Australian adolescence, his indiscretions, his renunciations and his appetites.

      More Please. An Autobiography1993
      4,5
    • Ik ben mij er eentje

      conférences

      • 225pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Teksten van conférences van hedendaagse Nederlandse cabaretiers.

      Ik ben mij er eentje1991
      3,7
    • Punch Lines

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      An anthology of the best comic writing in Punch from 1841 to 1991.

      Punch Lines1991
      3,0