{"id":25427,"date":"2016-04-23T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25427"},"modified":"2016-04-23T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T14:10:52","slug":"the-new-criterion-shakespeare-400-at-the-victoria-albert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-new-criterion-shakespeare-400-at-the-victoria-albert\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Criterion: Shakespeare 400 at the Victoria &#038; Albert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/posts.cfm\/Shakespeare-400-at-the-Victoria---Albert-8096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/posts.cfm\/Shakespeare-400-at-the-Victoria---Albert-8096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25428 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"newcriterion16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/newcriterion16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/newcriterion16a.jpg 220w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/newcriterion16a-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>A comprehensive article on yesterday&#8217;s<em> Shakespeare 400<\/em> event has been published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/posts.cfm\/Shakespeare-400-at-the-Victoria---Albert-8096\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The New Criterion<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shakespeare 400 at the Victoria &amp; Albert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day ended on a warming note: a strong cup of tea, a ginger biscuit, and a genial chat between the poetry editor Paul Keegan and the singer\/actress Toyah Willcox, who played Miranda in Derek Jarman\u2019s film of The Tempest (1979). Willcox\u2019s costume of rags is held by the V&amp;A, and was too delicate to be released for this symposium. The film has aged similarly: part camp period piece, part inspired dismantling of the play. Jarman, Willcox recalled, started with \u201cdesign.\u201d He broke the final image of the play into its components, and then reconstructed them in his fashion. If he did not build a smoothly working machine, at least its coughs and rattles add to the chorus of interpretations and images.<\/p>\n<p>While filming Jarman\u2019s Tempest, the cast and crew chose to sit out a snow storm in their remote set, a derelict abbey. \u201cIt was fantastically wild,\u201d Willcox recalled of working inside a real tempest. \u201cWe were living the dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/posts.cfm\/Shakespeare-400-at-the-Victoria---Albert-8096\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The New Criterion<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive article on yesterday&#8217;s Shakespeare 400 event has been published by The New Criterion. Shakespeare 400 at the Victoria &amp; Albert The day ended on a warming note: a strong cup of tea, a ginger biscuit, and a genial chat between the poetry editor Paul Keegan and the singer\/actress Toyah Willcox, who played Miranda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1519,745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427"}],"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=25427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25431,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427\/revisions\/25431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}