{"id":27827,"date":"2017-10-30T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27827"},"modified":"2017-10-30T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:12:36","slug":"royal-exchange-theatre-dreaming-with-open-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/royal-exchange-theatre-dreaming-with-open-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Exchange Theatre: Dreaming With Open Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalexchange.co.uk\/dreaming-with-open-eyes-the-films-of-derek-jarman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.royalexchange.co.uk\/dreaming-with-open-eyes-the-films-of-derek-jarman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27828 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"jubilee17h\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/jubilee17h.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><strong>Dreaming With Open Eyes &#8211; The Films of Derek Jarman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In many ways, it is surprising that Chris Goode\u2019s realisation of Jubilee, Derek Jarman\u2019s 1977 state-of-the-nation punk film fantasia, is the first adaptation for the theatre of an original work by the late, great artist, director, writer, designer, activist and gardener.<\/p>\n<p>There are many lenses through which one can consider this hugely influential maker and his prolific, fecund and diverse oeuvre, but the \u2018theatrical\u2019 is certainly absolutely central to Jarman\u2019s vision of creative possibility, regardless of the medium in question.<\/p>\n<p>Even before one encounters his work \u2013 and this is most resonant for those who actually met him \u2013 the \u2018staging\u2019 of his persona, his declared \u2018self\u2019, a dynamically creative gay man in a generally hostile culture, suggested how importantly he viewed the productive tensions implicit within the very idea of theatre: I am, and am not, the person I present. This extended to his choice of living space, at once private and public, from the pioneering loft on London\u2019s Bankside to his final years at Prospect Cottage on the windswept shingle of Dungeness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalexchange.co.uk\/dreaming-with-open-eyes-the-films-of-derek-jarman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Royal Exchange Theatre<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreaming With Open Eyes &#8211; The Films of Derek Jarman In many ways, it is surprising that Chris Goode\u2019s realisation of Jubilee, Derek Jarman\u2019s 1977 state-of-the-nation punk film fantasia, is the first adaptation for the theatre of an original work by the late, great artist, director, writer, designer, activist and gardener. There are many lenses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,27,50],"tags":[1754,1764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827"}],"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=27827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27830,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827\/revisions\/27830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}