Making History

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It was written really well, but not something I would have engaged with if it had been by any other author.

The only interesting approach is that Fry tries to imagine what the consequences would be of attempts to change history, but even that is poorly executed.

Stephen Fry's working is admittedly engaging and smart and, not least of all, funny, but somehow Fry's famous wit does not work in this work of fiction. What I loved about Fry's story is that he did not rely on a naive plot, but actually put a lot of thought into his conjectures, where one change effects so many things that outcomes are not predictable.

One requires a certain level of hubris to think that one should be responsible for changing history, and Michael certainly has that. What is more, Fry did this rather well and without resorting to a lot of stereotyping or using cliches.Cursed with enough of divine fire to recognise it in others, but not enough to create anything myself. When I saw that this show was in a church hall in the suburbs I thought it might be a bit "Am Dram", but not at all. He gives up his career in academia, figuring he can at least make some money "writing" the songs that he remembers from the previous reality.

In the beginning, the switch between past and present was a bit odd and I had a hard time to find into the book.You'll find more information about accessibile performances and how to book tickets in the accessibility tab below. And so of course, as a child does, I imagined Hitler himself was personally responsible; I pictured that man with a moustache, whose image I knew, with a dripping knife in his hand, stabbing at my family. But after several chapters, you see how all of it fits to the story and then I couldn't stop reading. For someone who is a PhD candidate in history at Cambridge University, his inability to see that removing Hitler from the picture would not change the disastrous situation in Germany after the First World War, and that of course some other leader would emerge, was frankly unbelievable, despite his immaturity.