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Barry Humphries Barry Humphries i(A12734 works by) (a.k.a. John Barry Humphries)
Also writes as: Dame Edna Everage ; Les Patterson ; Barry McKenzie ; Sandy Stone
Born: Established: 17 Feb 1934 Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 22 Apr 2023 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 Sandy Comes Home : The Reveries of a Returned Man Barry Humphries , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 67 no. 6 2023; (p. 32-38)
'Sandy Stone is one of the great poetic creations of Australian literature-or perhaps one should say theatre and literature, since it is impossible to imagine him without Barry Humphries's performance of Sandy's disappointed but stoic face, eyes and mouth and his representation of his quavering voice. He is also Barry Humphries's favourite character, and possibly the public's: when he died in 1971, there was not a dry eye in the house and his return as a revenant must have been in part due to popular demand.' 

(Introduction)

1 'His First Duty Was to Inspire Laughter' Barry Humphries , 2023 single work obituary (for Barry Humphries )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 April 2023; (p. 13)
'In 1981, Barry Humphries was asked to write his own obituary. He did, with customary caustic candour. Read on, possums.'
1 1 Barry Humphries : The Man behind the Mask Barry Humphries , 2018 single work drama

'Famous Artist Barry Humphries bares all in new Australian show

'Celebrated Australian performer Barry Humphries AO, CBE will take Australian audiences on a revelatory trip through his colourful life and theatrical career when he tours Australia in May 2018 with Barry Humphries: The Man Behind the Mask.

'In an intimate, confessional evening – seasoned with highly personal, sometimes startling, and occasionally outrageous stories – Australia’s best loved entertainer will be peeling off his mask to introduce the man behind the clown.

'For more than 60 years, Humphries has held a mirror to Australia and Australians, revealing their virtues, their foibles, their triumphs and their failings through a gallery of adored characters, including Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Paterson and Sandy Stone.' (Production summary) 

1 Up a Wombat’s Freckle Barry Humphries , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2017 2017; (p. 173-176) The Times Literary Supplement , 21 June 2017;

'“I  hope there won’t be any colloquialisms in this fillum Barry”, said Tom Stubbings breathlessly. The senior Sydney accountant had bounded across the tarmac at Kingsford-Smith aerodrome to catch us before we boarded the flight to London to start filming The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. The director, Bruce Beresford, and I were co-authors of the screenplay, and Mr Stubbings was charged with administering the total production budget of $250,000 advanced to us by the ­Australian Film Corporation. He was nervous. Naturally I reassured him: “It’s a family film, Tom”, I said, lying through my teeth. When the film was released on October 12, 1972, and returned its total investment to the AFC in a matter of weeks, it was, notwithstanding, excoriated by every critic, journalist and disc jockey in Australia as a vulgar calumny, a cruel mis­representation of Australian refinement. The movie was a ceaseless stream of colloquialisms new, obsolete and invented. It was the filthiest Australian film of the year, the nadir of Australian cinema which had by then entered its soft-focus “idyllic” phase.'  (Introduction)

1 Show Time Barry Humphries , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 September 2016; (p. 6)
1 8 Barry Humphries' Weimar Cabaret Barry Humphries , 2013 single work musical theatre 'Barry Humphries curates, presents and performs the degenerate music of Berlin's Weimar Republic (1920s-1930s) including jazz, cabaret, tango and Broadway-musical style pieces. The hedonistic partying and social revolution of this era is re-awakened in this full-throttle concert featuring transgressive cabaret sensation Meow Meow in the racier numbers.

Hear songs by Kurt Weill including The Threepenny Opera's "Pirate Jenny", see Barry Humphries and Meow Meow sing the duet "Mousie" and dance a tango, and join Barry as he rediscovers the lost music of Krenek, Schulhoff, Toch, Brandt, Grosz and more.'
1 The Lost Notes Barry Humphries , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 April 2013; (p. 6-7)
1 The Lost Notes Barry Humphries , 2013 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Age , 6 April 2013; (p. 14)
1 19 Eat, Pray, Laugh Barry Humphries , 2012 single work musical theatre humour
1 Stop the Degradation of 19th-Century Pitt Street Barry Humphries , 2011 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 December 2011; (p. 20)
Barry Humphries argues for the conservation of Pitt Street, Redfern.
1 In the Magpie Nest of the Divine Miss Olley Barry Humphries , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 July 2011; (p. 14)
Barry Humphries recalls his friendship with Margaret Olley and Olley's frequent, but largely unknown, 'beneficences'.
1 Arthur Boyd: a Life Barry Humphries , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011;
1 My Life in Music Les Patterson , 2009 single work column humour
— Appears in: The Age , 12 December 2009; (p. 7) The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 December 2009; (p. 8)
1 On the Spot: Barry Humphries Barry Humphries , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 24 October 2009; (p. 3)
1 From : More Please Barry Humphries , 2009 extract autobiography (More Please)
— Appears in: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 823-826)
1 The Night I Met Edna Barry Humphries , 2009 extract biography (Handling Edna : The Unauthorised Biography)
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 September 2009; (p. 25)
2 8 y separately published work icon Handling Edna : The Unauthorised Biography Barry Humphries , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2009 Z1628845 2009 single work biography

'In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times - Dame Edna Everage. Superstar, swami, confidante and advisor to royalty, Hollywood stars and international political leaders, Dame Edna's life has catapulted her far from her humble Moonee Ponds beginnings as a suburban housewife to the most elite social and artistic circles in the world.

'Who would have thought that this modest Australian woman could achieve so much from London to Louisiana to New York to Tokyo? Who could have anticipated her global fame? Barry Humphries certainly didn't.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 My Loyal Subjects and Possums! A Seasonal Message from President Edna Dame Edna Everage , 2008 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Best Australian Humorous Writing 2008; (p. 33-35)
1 2 of Us : Barry Humphries and Bruce Beresford Barry Humphries , Bruce Beresford , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 30 August 2008; (p. 16)
1 Adventures of King Arthur Barry Humphries , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 November 2007; (p. 37)

— Review of Arthur Boyd : A Life Darleen Bungey , 2007 single work biography
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