{"id":25396,"date":"2016-04-14T04:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T03:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25396"},"modified":"2016-04-14T05:14:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:14:19","slug":"toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Newsy Bits &#038; Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoacademy.com\/courses\/shakespeare-400-at-the-va-a-one-day-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.howtoacademy.com\/courses\/shakespeare-400-at-the-va-a-one-day-festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25397 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"shakespeare400b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/shakespeare400b.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a>\u2022 <strong>Shakespeare 400<\/strong>: Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s death with the stuff that dreams are made on. Hosted by the V&amp;A and led by Shakespeare scholar John Pitcher (St John\u2019s College, Oxford), we invite you to a festival of art, poetry, music and on-stage discussions devoted to his final, and most magical play, The Tempest &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoacademy.com\/courses\/shakespeare-400-at-the-va-a-one-day-festival\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Penguin: A Guide To Shakespeare<\/strong>: The Tempest, directed by Derek Jarman (1979) &#8211; A wonderfully high camp, punk take on Shakespeare\u2019s last play, Jarman\u2019s adaptation stars the poet Heathcote Williams as Prospero and a young Toyah Willcox as Miranda. The music is extraordinary, perfectly encapsulating Caliban\u2019s famous, \u2018Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises \/ Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not\u2019 and the film is a visual feast. Watch this if you like\u2026 epics, beautiful cinematography &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/articles\/on-writing\/on-writing\/2016\/apr\/a-guide-to-shakespeare-from-page-to-stage-to-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>My Favourite Things<\/strong>: British punk singer, Toyah Willcox as Miranda in Derek Jarman\u2019s 1979 film version of William Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/seventh-victim.tumblr.com\/post\/142485006253\/british-punk-singer-toyah-willcox-as-miranda-in\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah At The V&amp;A<\/strong>:\u00a0Toyah is a panel guest at the forthcoming <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoacademy.com\/courses\/shakespeare-400-at-the-va-a-one-day-festival\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare 400 at The V&amp;A: A One Day Festival<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0taking place on 22nd April 2016.\u00a0Further information\/Book tickets at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoacademy.com\/courses\/shakespeare-400-at-the-va-a-one-day-festival\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>V&amp;A website<\/strong><\/a>. More details also at <a href=\"http:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/event\/shakespeare-400-the-va-a-one-day-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>toyahwillcox.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoacademy.com\/courses\/shakespeare-400-at-the-va-a-one-day-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.howtoacademy.com\/courses\/shakespeare-400-at-the-va-a-one-day-festival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"shakespeare400a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/shakespeare400a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Shakespeare 400: Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s death with the stuff that dreams are made on. Hosted by the V&amp;A and led by Shakespeare scholar John Pitcher (St John\u2019s College, Oxford), we invite you to a festival of art, poetry, music and on-stage discussions devoted to his final, and most magical play, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,10,66,501],"tags":[1519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25396"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25409,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions\/25409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}