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Goodbye Possums! Dame Edna Quits The Stage
The sarcastic Melbourne housewife played
Australian comedian Barry Humphries retires after a lifetime
showbusiness.
Dame Edna Everage,
purple-rinsed Melbourne housewife, is hanging up her
and retiring from
stage after more than half
century in showbusiness.
Currently
a farewell tour in Australia, the 78-year-old - famous for
put-downs and inflated ego - has decided to
her final bow.
"I can't go
doing it," Dame Edna told a news conference before
show in Sydney.
"I have other activities, I have my books, my charities
are growing.
"The Prostrate Olympics are coming
."
Dame Edna's creator, Barry Humphries, first performed
character in 1955.
She has appeared
stage during theatrical tours of Europe, the US and the Middle East.
Humphries won a special Tony Award
his 2000 Broadway offering Dame Edna, The Royal Tour and a Tony nomination in 2004
Back With A Vengeance.
With
outrageous outfits and oversized horn-rimmed glasses, Dame Edna became a cult figure - and
of Australia's most successful entertainment exports.
Appearing regularly on television
the globe Humphries won the Golden Rose of Montreux in 1991. She hosted a number of successful TV shows
the UK.
Dame Edna is
of a number of Humphries' characters
will no longer perform. He will also retire
likes of obnoxious, inebriated cultural attache, Sir Les Patterson.
In Dame Edna's final show,
has just got under
in Australia, Dame Edna promises to "empower" audiences as she meditates
the big issues of gender, ethnicity and climate change.
She has
been afraid to shock either,
particularly cutting about Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard,
is struggling in the polls.
Asked by a journalist what advice she had
the PM, Dame Edna said: "Retirement, retirement darling, she was great
other things before she was prime minister, but prime minister?
"No, and we
not want to have a leader of the country who makes us cringe every
she appears
public."
Dame Edna plans to
farewell to UK audiences in coming months, noting
the Queen's recent jubilee celebrations
the timing perfect.
"The Queen celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, and I'm
to celebrate my diamante jubilee!"
Adapted from: Sky News, July 8, 2012.
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