Beyond the Fringe of, in 1960, by an Oxford graduate, Robert Ponsonby, artistic director for the Edinburgh International Festival. John Bassett, a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, who was Ponsonby's assistant, recommended Dudley Moore, his jazz bandmate and a rising cabaret talent. Moore in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had had a hit at Edinburgh a few years before. Bassett also chose Jonathan Miller, who had been a Footlights star in 1957. Miller recommended Cook. Bennett and Miller were already pursuing careers in academia and medicine respectively, but Cook had an agent, having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams. Cook's agent
The Fringe Dwellers The Fringe Dwellers The Fringe Dwellers is a 1961 novel written by the Western Australian author Nene Gare. It was made into a 1986 film directed by Bruce Beresford. A young Aboriginal girl dreams of life beyond the family camp that sits on the fringe of white society. "The Fringe Dwellers" is acclaimed as being the first Australian film featuring Indigenous actors in all the major roles. "The Fringe Dwellers" received critical and international success when it was released in 1986, but gained only a lukewarm reception in Australia. Beresford had been interested in making a film from the novel