Beyond The Fringe was a British comedy show written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennet and Jonathan Miller. It played in Britain's West End and in New York's Broadway in the early 1960s.
It was effectively a series of satirical sketches and musical pieces looking at events of the day and was based on a Footlights show from Cambridge University, after which it moved to the Edinburgh Festival. It effectively represented the views and disappointments of the first generation of British people to grow up after the war.
Some have credited it with the rise of the Satire Boom of the late 1960s. Without it there may not have been any That Was The Week That Was or Private Eye magazine.
Quotation from the show (said by Army Major to soldier): "I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war."
