Still treading the boards

She's been on stage 50 years and is still going strong.

Not NOT ME!


I refer to the glamourous and beautifully talented Dame Edna Everage. She has a new sell out show here in sydders to celebrate fifty years on the stage. Of course, I couldnt let it pass without popping in and having a look at this drag queen.






She no longer refers to her self as a megastar. She is now a self proclaimed gigastar and rightly so.

Her show was about two and a half hours of mostly non scripted stand up and it was brilliant! I've never seen her live before, but I used to watch The Dame Edna Experience back home.

The show was a bit slow to start as Barry did Les Patterson first off. He's never been one of my favourite characters, with all his slobbering and spitting, but to see him in the flesh was actually quite funny, with all the first five rows of the audience ducking and diving to avoid being spat on with whiskey.

there was then a really odd/weird sketch where he played a dead bloke wandering the halls of the home where he was a "care recipient" basically sat in a chair talking about the time with his still alive wife Beryl. Surreal. Funny, but surreal.

Les and Dame Edna are not really suitable for kids, so why would parents bring their 9 year girl to the show. A question Dame Edna wanted to know and promptly dragged the girl on stage and asked which wise parents brought her. Edna promised the little girl that her parents would explain the show when she grew up.









It was a great show and you should slip into your best frock and see it if you can.