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Anne Pender’s Seven Big Australians

Apr 22, 2019

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in Australian Satire, Comic Theatre, Humour – Australian, Stand-up comedy – Australian

Transforming comic genres In Seven Big Australians: Adventures with comic actors (Monash University Press, 2019) Anne Pender paints an unforgettable portrait of the lives of Australian comic actors: Carol Raye, Barry Humphries, Noeline Brown, Max Gillies, John Clarke, Tony Sheldon and Denise Scott. She brings to life careers that span from the Second World War…