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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. The Upstart Crow, like the TV series Upstart Crow, a comic version of William Shakespeare's life and society, and sharing some of the same actors and characters, opened in London on 7 February 2020. Starring David Mitchell as Shakespeare and Gemma Whelan as Kate, the play was intended to run until 25 April 2020, but only ran up to mid-March, with the remainder cancelled as a result of restrictions put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [45] The play reopened in the West End at the Apollo Theatre for a ten-week season from 23 September until 3 December 2022. Ben Elton sure has his finger on the pulse You'll laugh, you'll groan, you'll roll your eyes at the people and situations described here. I think we've all either been or know at least one of the types described here. Elton grew up in Catford, south London, before moving with his family to Guildford, Surrey in 1968, where he became involved in amateur dramatics groups. [9] Reflecting on those times at an event in Guildford in 2013, Elton said: Love Never Dies | The Show | A Note From The Composer". 8 March 2010. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010 . Retrieved 15 November 2020.

A later wave of feminism that advocates the use of internet tools like social media to help advocate gender equality and an equal voice for all

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Cavendish, Dominic (10 December 2021). "Ben Elton: 'I recognise Mrs Thatcher was a woman of principle' ". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 22 October 2022. Someone who does not identify with traditional gender distinctions but may identify with neither, both or a combination of genders In 2016 Elton wrote the sitcom Upstart Crow, parodying the writing and family life of William Shakespeare, and starring David Mitchell as Shakespeare. This programme ran for a second series in 2017, and a third series in 2018. Elton wrote the six-part sitcom Blessed, starring Ardal O'Hanlon as a record producer, first broadcast on BBC1 in 2005. No further series was commissioned.

Ben Elton was a central figure in the choice dramatization scene in Britain in the 1980s, and his thriving has continued as he spread out onto the stage, the novel composed work, and musicals. Ben Elton is a champion amongst the best and whole deal comedic creators and performers on the planet.

Elton wrote and produced The Thin Blue Line, a studio-based sitcom set in a police station, also starring Rowan Atkinson, which ran for two series in 1995 and 1996. A prime-time family show, its traditional format and characters won it the 1995 British Comedy Award and both the public and professional Jury Awards at Reims. There's no sign that Elton, who turns 60 in a few weeks'time, will lose that social conscience. He says he's not driven, and lives a very comfortable existence in Western Australia.

A conflation of feminist and Nazi, used as a pejorative against feminist perceived to be too radical. a b c Guardian Staff (24 May 2000). "Ben Elton: from Peter Pan to Maybe Baby". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 October 2022. But my insight, the one I had but didn’t express, was that although we live in an era of instant communication, the world Elton describes is one in which we are no more accurately informed than the French citizens who overthrew a king. Greer was once on the right side of history and like her fictional counterpart, Giffard, could not have foreseen the ground shifting beneath her feet. Many French citizens who lost their heads during the French Revolution may have been equally surprised when what started as a revolution for equality became a bloodbath at the foot of the guillotine. In Elton’s novel, time and again, chronicles the same process of the shifting tides of opinion, and the variable fortunes of protagonists, some horrible, some of whom are moral, well-intentioned people. Yet both can be deemed toxic and find themselves on the wrong side of history in the combative arena of social media. That was my insight. How is it possible to be so trenchant and angry when we know that history alone will judge us? If Elton’s novel is about anything it is this: the need for perspective and conversation, not abuse. Jones, Catherine (24 June 2007). "Macca school gong for star turns". Liverpool Echo . Retrieved 2 November 2021.West End and UK Theatre venue performances cancelled due to coronavirus". What's on Stage. 16 March 2020 . Retrieved 2 April 2020. a heterosexual man, usually of the city, who enjoys some pursuits traditionally attributed to women. a b "Ben Elton set to call Freo home | The West Australian". Yahoo! News. 12 November 2009. Archived from the original on 2 December 2011 . Retrieved 11 August 2011.