Beyond the Fringe : a Revue

Description: Beyond the Fringe : a Revue Very Good - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Ready to Ship By -- Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore Published by -- Samuel French Inc., 1991, New York NY, 80 Pages, Staple-Bound, 7" X 5" X .2", 3 oz., ISBN -- 0573640025 / 9780573640025 [WIKIPEDIA]"Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore. It debuted at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival and went on to play in London's West End and then in America, both on tour and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s. Hugely successful, it is widely regarded as seminal to the "satire boom", the rise of satirical comedy in 1960s Britain. (...) The idea for Beyond the Fringe came from Robert Ponsonby, who was the director of the Edinburgh International Festival from 1956 to 1960.[1] He felt that the Festival should put on a late-night revue "to beat The Fringe at its own game." By 1960, the Festival was so firmly established that "it required for its health some good-humoured self-mockery." (...) Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny—although the BBC were predisposed to frown upon it. (...) Beyond the Fringe was a forerunner to British television programmes That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show, and Monty Python's Flying Circus." #booksforsale #instaread #BeyondTheFringe #Vintage #Surrealism #Bookstagram #MontyPython #Antiquarian #booksale #bibliophile #bookcollecting #PeterCook #Bookworm #SamuelFrench #CuttleboneBooks #EdinburghFringeFestival #collectiblebooks #Books #BooksBooksBooks #CoverArt #Play #Theatre #readersofinstagram #DudleyMoore #Comedy #instabooks

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