Beyond the Fringe Beyond the Fringe Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller. It played in London's West End and then in America, both on tour and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s. Hugely successful, it is widely regarded as seminal to the "satire boom", the rise of satirical comedy in 1960s Britain. The idea, of bringing together the best of revues by the Cambridge Footlights and The Oxford Revue, both of which had transferred to Fringe Festival for short runs in previous years, was conceived
Things: A Story of the Sixties Things: A Story of the Sixties Things (French Les Choses) is a 1965 novel by Georges Perec, his first. The novel met with popular and critical success and won the Prix Renaudot in 1965. An authoritative English translation was published in a shared volume with "A Man Asleep". Recent French paperback editions, and the English translation, bear the subtitle "A Story of the Sixties" (fr. "Une histoire des années soixante"), though the original French edition did not. The characters in the novel do not hold as much textual importance as the things ("les choses") meticulously described throughout, which are the