{"id":26205,"date":"2016-08-13T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26205"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:30:16","slug":"london-calling-interview-with-phil-willmott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/london-calling-interview-with-phil-willmott\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling: Interview with Phil Willmott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/londoncalling.com\/features\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical-interview-with-director-phil-willmott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/londoncalling.com\/features\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical-interview-with-director-phil-willmott\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26206 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"cprm16b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cprm16b.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><strong>Crime &amp; Punishment: A Rock Musical &#8211; Interview with Director Phil Willmott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of London\u2019s Free Open-Air Theatre Season, Crime &amp; Punishment: A Rock Musical will hold its world premiere at The Scoop in London Bridge this month. Directed and adapted by Phil Willmott and featuring music by legendary rock legend Toyah Willcox, this revamped production will transform Dostoyevsky\u2019s most famous and influential novel into a thrilling new musical. We sit down with director Phil Willmott to get the low-down on this adaptation of a classic with a tuneful twist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>London Calling: What attracted you to doing a rock-version of Crime &amp; Punishment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phil Willmott: Well, we always try to do plays that reflect what\u2019s going on in London society. Right now, we\u2019re all very interested in what motivates these lone wolf killers to commit these terrible atrocities around the world. Crime &amp; Punishment is very much about this, about a young man who sincerely believes that for the greater good and because of his beliefs that he is entitled to kill, so it feels very topical. And even though it\u2019s a 19th Century Russian novel, the story is all about student angst, anger, and idealism so it seemed to really suggest itself to rock music as a sort of language for anger and alienation, as well as having a youthful energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LC: You\u2019re using music by Toyah Willcox and Simon Darlow. What is it about their music that fits so well with this rock adaptation? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PW: Well in the 80s she was the punk princess. She was the person who took punk rock and sort of glamourised it and made it theatrical, while still retaining the kind of rawness, the anger and the energy of rock. So, because that\u2019s my generation\u2019s music, the first thing I did was to go back and listen to her songs and then I discovered that she is still recording and is still a best-selling recording artist so I got in touch with her and explained what I wanted to do and fortunately she said yes, that she\u2019d love to come on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/londoncalling.com\/features\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical-interview-with-director-phil-willmott\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>London Calling<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime &amp; Punishment: A Rock Musical &#8211; Interview with Director Phil Willmott As part of London\u2019s Free Open-Air Theatre Season, Crime &amp; Punishment: A Rock Musical will hold its world premiere at The Scoop in London Bridge this month. Directed and adapted by Phil Willmott and featuring music by legendary rock legend Toyah Willcox, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,50],"tags":[1600,1642,1643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205"}],"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=26205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26207,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions\/26207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}