{"id":26506,"date":"2016-09-06T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26506"},"modified":"2016-09-06T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:14:32","slug":"attitude-crime-punishment-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/attitude-crime-punishment-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude: Crime &#038; Punishment Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/attitude.co.uk\/review-crime-punishment-at-the-scoop-amphitheatre-in-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/attitude.co.uk\/review-crime-punishment-at-the-scoop-amphitheatre-in-london\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26507 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"attitude16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/attitude16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><strong>Review | \u2018Crime &amp; Punishment\u2019 at The Scoop amphitheatre in London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dostoyevsky meets steam punk in this bold retelling of the literary classic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Setting a theatrical performance of Dostoyevsky\u2019s brooding novel Crime and Punishment in a world of steam punk is a brave choice; accompanying it with a soundtrack made up of Toyah Willcox\u2019s classic rock anthems is even braver. The production team at Gods and Monsters Theatre Company have not only attempted this, they\u2019ve pulled it off with all the brazen authority of an axe-wielding Raskolnikov.<\/p>\n<p>The classic Russian tale opens the new season at The Scoop in London, a 1,000-person sunken amphitheatre, and follows Raskolnikov as he justifies the brutal murder of a pawn broker with his belief that it was for the greater good of mankind, that by using the money he steals for good causes he has the right to go above and beyond the law. Directed by Phil Willmott, songs like \u2018Love Crazy\u2019 and \u2018Who Let the Beast Out\u2019 are intermingled with the tale, fitting surprisingly well with the heavy story and lifting it into a lighter tone that can be enjoyed more readily by all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/attitude.co.uk\/review-crime-punishment-at-the-scoop-amphitheatre-in-london\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Attitude<\/strong><\/a>. Read other reviews of <em>Crime and Punishment <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/cp-review\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0(Photo \u00a9 Attitude\/Sheila Burnett)<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (6.1.1) simplesharebuttons.com --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/attitude.co.uk\/review-crime-punishment-at-the-scoop-amphitheatre-in-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/attitude.co.uk\/review-crime-punishment-at-the-scoop-amphitheatre-in-london\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26510\" alt=\"cprm16j\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cprm16j.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cprm16j.jpg 595w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cprm16j-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review | \u2018Crime &amp; Punishment\u2019 at The Scoop amphitheatre in London Dostoyevsky meets steam punk in this bold retelling of the literary classic. Setting a theatrical performance of Dostoyevsky\u2019s brooding novel Crime and Punishment in a world of steam punk is a brave choice; accompanying it with a soundtrack made up of Toyah Willcox\u2019s classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110,50],"tags":[1666,1663,1600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506"}],"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=26506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26513,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506\/revisions\/26513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}