Identity Crisis

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Elton worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the musical Love Never Dies, which opened in London's West End in 2010. It was the sequel to Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (1986). [42] Blast From the Past (1998) was also adapted for the stage and was produced at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Relative Values: Ben Elton and his father". The Sunday Times. News UK. 15 March 2009. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014 . Retrieved 23 April 2015. Cole, Tom. "Ben Elton's The Wright Way rubs critics up the wrong way". Radio Times . Retrieved 27 April 2013. Popcorn (1996) was adapted for the stage and went on a UK tour. It also toured Australia in a production starring Marcus Graham and Nadine Garner in its Eastern-States seasons. Popcorn won the TMA Barclays Theatre Award for new play and the Olivier Award for comedy. The Paris production of Popcorn ran for a year and was nominated for seven Molière awards.

Lashings of ripped-from-the-headlines subjects make their way into Identity Crisis: #metoo, Harvey Weinstein, a Brexit-like campaign with characters such as Bunter Jolly and Plantagenet Greased-Hogg, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, fake news and the perma-tan exclusively hetero citadel of Love Island. Moreton, Cole (11 November 2014). "Ben Elton, interview: 'Michael Gove made an arse of himself' ". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 23 April 2015.Stephanie Merritt (7 November 2004). Guardian Unlimited Books – Mystery Man . Retrieved 11 August 2011. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) Enjoyable commentary on contemporary society and its over the top political correctness, and the ‘me’ generation with their social media obsession. Brothers divided for the most extreme reasons". This is Lincolnshire. 29 November 2012. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013 . Retrieved 2 February 2013. Nine axes Elton's comedy show – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News. 23 February 2011. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011 . Retrieved 11 August 2011. This book is hilarious, sad in parts, and terrifying as it is so easy to see the truth in the humour.

Whoooo boy. Okay. I have some feelings about this book. So many mixed feelings. I've been thinking about it since I finished it last night and I still can't quite decide how I feel about it so bear with me if this review is a mess. His books have won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for Crime Fiction ( Popcorn), the Swedish Kaliber Award ( Popcorn), WH Smiths People's Choice Fiction Award ( High Society) and Prix Polar International Crime Writer Award ( Amitiès Mortelles for Past Mortem, French edition). [ citation needed] Personal life [ edit ]

I’ve never given such a low rating to a Ben Elton book but I would’ve given up on it if it wasn’t written by him. I was hoping it was going somewhere, but unfortunately not really.