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February 01, 1990

More than Sure-Fire Hits and Car Launches

Filed under: Archive,Interviews,Theatre

Murray Bramwell interviews Andrew Bleby, incoming Program Director, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust.

This year brings some interesting changes for arts administrator Andrew Bleby. After he has finished his third stint at the centre of Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival in May he will return to his home town Adelaide, to take up a three year appointment as Program Director for the Festival Centre Trust.

Andrew first worked as Education Officer with the Festival Centre between 1977 and 1982 and in 1981 …

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Looking Back Retrospectively

Filed under: Archive,Books

1990

My Gorgeous Life
by Dame Edna Everage
Macmillan

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Despite having become more global than ozone since her first appearance on December 13, 1955 (at the behest of playwright Ray Lawler) Edna Everage has rarely committed herself to print. Virtually silent on the page since the Coffee Table Book of 1976, her recently released memoir, My Gorgeous Life, candidly reveals details that have somehow escaped the tungsten glare of publicity in which she is perpetually bathed.…

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