Take Five: Including Brian Brake: Lens on the World and Eat Pray Laugh

By Guy Somerset In Take Five

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11th August, 2012
1 They’ll be bussing them in from Palmerston North for this one. The relatives of the late Madge Allsop, that is. She was for so long the silent foil (not to say fool) to Dame Edna Everage, and surely merits a mention or two during the Auckland run of Barry Humphries’s farewell tour, EAT PRAY LAUGH. There’ll plenty of others feeling the lash of Dame Edna’s tongue, too, Humphries having a wit that is sharply honed and always being quick with a riposte. He’ll also be donning the crumpled crumb-and-God-knows-whatelse- covered suit of his other alter ego, permanently ...

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