{"id":25576,"date":"2016-05-16T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25576"},"modified":"2016-05-16T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:06:46","slug":"shakespeare-on-film-the-tempest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/shakespeare-on-film-the-tempest\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare on Film: The Tempest @ Watershed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/whatson\/7335\/the-tempest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/whatson\/7335\/the-tempest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25578 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"tempest16b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tempest16b.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tempest16b.jpg 220w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tempest16b-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Derek Jarman&#8217;s <em>The Tempest<\/em> is being screened next month at Watershed, Bristol as part of the\u00a0<em>BFI presents Shakespeare on Film<\/em> programme.<\/p>\n<p>Brooding and darkly laden with symbolic imagery, Derek Jarman\u2019s terrific, homoerotic adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s final play is considered by some to be the most evocative Shakespeare adaptation ever to reach the screen.<\/p>\n<p>A tale of colonialism, revenge, retribution and reconciliation, it focuses on an ageing magician named Prospero (Heathcote Williams) &#8211; who is imprisoned on an island with his beautiful daughter Miranda (Toyah Willcox) and a beast called Caliban (Jack Birkett) &#8211; and his plans to seek vengeance on his brother by conjuring up a wild tempest to shipwreck his ship. This is Jarman at his most playful and original &#8211; enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare on Film: The Tempest<br \/>\nSun 19 June 12:00 |\u00a0Director: Derek Jarman<br \/>\nCast: Heathcote Williams, Toyah Willcox, Karl Johnson<br \/>\n135 mins, 1979, UK<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Further info at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/whatson\/7335\/the-tempest\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watershed website<\/strong><\/a>. There&#8217;s also a short article on the screening at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol247.com\/channel\/whats-on\/film-01\/drama\/the-tempest\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>bristol247.com<\/strong><\/a>. Browse further details on\u00a0<em>BFI presents Shakespeare on Film<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/shakespeare-on-film\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/whatson\/7335\/the-tempest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/whatson\/7335\/the-tempest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13077\" alt=\"79tempestgall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/79tempestgall.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/79tempestgall.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/79tempestgall-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Jarman&#8217;s The Tempest is being screened next month at Watershed, Bristol as part of the\u00a0BFI presents Shakespeare on Film programme. Brooding and darkly laden with symbolic imagery, Derek Jarman\u2019s terrific, homoerotic adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s final play is considered by some to be the most evocative Shakespeare adaptation ever to reach the screen. A tale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,66],"tags":[171,1580,1581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25576"}],"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=25576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25585,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25576\/revisions\/25585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}