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Barry Humphries, best known for his now 60-year turn as the wisteria-tinted matriarch Dame Edna Everage, brings his Weimar Cabaret show to the Edinburgh International Festival following great acclaim in his native Australia.

Featuring feline cabaret star Meow Meow and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, led by Richard Tognetti, the show brings the 鈥渟ubmerged repertoire鈥� of Weimar-era Germany to the fore with an evening of music by Kurt Weill, Ernst Krenek and Mischa Spoliansky. The film features a performance of Ruins of Berlin by Friedrich Hollander.

Humphries鈥� obsession with the music labelled as 'degenerate' by the Nazis even predates his Dame Edna character. It began with chance encounters on Australian radio in the late 1930s, followed by the discovery of a pile of sheet music in a Melbourne bookshop.

Barry Humphries鈥� Weimar Cabaret was at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 8 & 9 August.