{"id":26415,"date":"2016-09-01T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26415"},"modified":"2016-09-01T06:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:58:42","slug":"theatre-london-director-phil-willmott-talks-free-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/theatre-london-director-phil-willmott-talks-free-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre.London: Director Phil Willmott Talks Free Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theatre.london\/whats-new\/getting-scoop-londons-free-open-air-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/theatre.london\/whats-new\/getting-scoop-londons-free-open-air-theatre\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26416 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"theatrelondon16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/theatrelondon16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><strong>Getting The Scoop on London\u2019s Free Open Air Theatre Season<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Director Phil Willmott talks to Matthew Amer about bringing free theatre to City Hall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Growing up, theatre director Phil Willmott was enthralled and inspired by pocket money-priced trips to the theatre. Now he hopes to inspire Londoners with shows that are entirely free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know anything about theatre or plays,\u201d Willmott says of his early exposure to the excitement of live theatre at Bristol Old Vic. \u201cI would sit in the dark and this extraordinary story would happen in front of me. It was just the most brilliant education in literature and humanity. The stories I saw taught me so much about the world and different cultures. I always want to capture that for other people, to give them theatre that is that exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what the director has been doing since 2003 at The Scoop with London\u2019s Free Open Air Theatre Season. Each year he stages a classic text and a children\u2019s production, and the audience can watch without having to open their wallets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we\u2019re free,\u201d Willmott continues, \u201cpeople from all walks of life will come along, take a chance and sit down. An hour and a half later they\u2019ve watched our play and want to talk about it. The really exciting thing about The Scoop\u2019s audience is most of them have never dreamed of going to the theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/theatre.london\/whats-new\/getting-scoop-londons-free-open-air-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Theatre.London<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting The Scoop on London\u2019s Free Open Air Theatre Season Director Phil Willmott talks to Matthew Amer about bringing free theatre to City Hall. Growing up, theatre director Phil Willmott was enthralled and inspired by pocket money-priced trips to the theatre. Now he hopes to inspire Londoners with shows that are entirely free. \u201cI didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27,50],"tags":[1600,1643,1659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415"}],"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=26415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26417,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions\/26417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}