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Ian Britain

Ian Britain

Ian Britain is a historian, biographer and former editor of Meanjin. His latest book, The Making of Donald Friend: Life & Art was published in August this year by Yarra and Hunter Arts Press.  

Ian Britain reviews 'One Man Show: The stages of Barry Humphries' by Anne Pender

December 2010–January 2011, no. 327 07 December 2010
On those twin Titans of the twentieth-century English stage, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, fellow-actor Simon Callow recently reflected: ‘We tell stories about them … because they filtered life through the medium of their souls to create new and rich variations on the human condition: they lived their art to the fullest extent possible. Of whom shall we be telling stories now?’ There i ... (read more)
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