{"id":26532,"date":"2016-09-07T20:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26532"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:56:08","slug":"time-out-crime-and-punishment-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/time-out-crime-and-punishment-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Out: Crime and Punishment Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26067 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"timeout16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/timeout16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><strong>Crime &amp; Punishment: A Rock Musical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nineties kids might remember Willcox as \u2018Barmy Aunt Boomerang\u2019 on CBBC, but she had a big career in the late \u201970s and \u201980s with hits like \u2018It\u2019s A Mystery\u2019 and \u2018I Want To Be Free\u2019. All her old tunes make an appearance, with some new songs too. They\u2019re fun, but tend to interrupt the rather arch, overwrought Russian melodrama and its philosophical inserts about moral superiority, rather than complementing or enlightening it.<\/p>\n<p>The adaptation by Phil Willmott (who also directs and acts in the show) has its merits and although it\u2019s a brisk 90 minutes it feels pacy rather than rushed. All the necessary beats, from heinous act through falling in love and eventual contrition, find their moment and there are some semi-decent bits of acting in there too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Time Out<\/strong><\/a>. Read other reviews of <em>Crime and Punishment<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/cp-review\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. (Photo \u00a9 Time Out\/Sheila Burnett)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/crime-punishment-a-rock-musical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26533\" alt=\"cprm16k\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cprm16k.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cprm16k.jpg 595w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cprm16k-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime &amp; Punishment: A Rock Musical Nineties kids might remember Willcox as \u2018Barmy Aunt Boomerang\u2019 on CBBC, but she had a big career in the late \u201970s and \u201980s with hits like \u2018It\u2019s A Mystery\u2019 and \u2018I Want To Be Free\u2019. All her old tunes make an appearance, with some new songs too. They\u2019re fun, [&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":[1663,1600,873],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532"}],"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=26532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26534,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532\/revisions\/26534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}