num_pages: 242
description: In 1989, the author spent a month in the wings of the Theatre Royal watching Barry Humphries perform as Dame Edna Everage. What emerges in this title is an account of the act and a portrait of the comedian and his art.
language: English
title: Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation: Backstage with Barry Humphries
titlecomplete: Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation: Backstage with Barry Humphries
genres: Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Bloomsbury