{"id":27884,"date":"2017-11-08T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27884"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:36:19","slug":"the-guardian-jubilee-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-guardian-jubilee-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: Jubilee Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2017\/nov\/07\/jubilee-review-toyah-willcox-derek-jarman-punk-pageant?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2017\/nov\/07\/jubilee-review-toyah-willcox-derek-jarman-punk-pageant?CMP=share_btn_tw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27885 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"guardian17b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/guardian17b.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><strong>Jubilee review \u2013 rude and raucous return for Jarman&#8217;s punk pageant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Goode directs Toyah Willcox in a wild reimagining of Derek Jarman\u2019s film about a time-travelling queen and a generation with no future<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Welcome to Jubilee,\u201d says Amyl Nitrate near the start of Chris Goode\u2019s reimagining of Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978 punk movie. The straight-talking Amyl, played on stage by the mesmerising transgender performer Travis Alabanza, tells us what to expect: \u201cAn iconic film most of you have never heard of, adapted by an Oxbridge twat for a dying medium, spoiled by millennials, ruined by diversity, and constantly threatening to go interactive.\u201d \u00a0 That just about sums it up, and if you go with the flow you will be taken on a wild theatrical experience that knows exactly what it is doing, even at its most cracked, rude and raucous. This is smart work, spikily and lovingly performed.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox, who starred in Jarman\u2019s original film, sounds cheekily like Judi Dench in the role of Queen Elizabeth I, presiding over a day trip to the future conjured by court astrologer Dr Dee (Harold Finley).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2017\/nov\/07\/jubilee-review-toyah-willcox-derek-jarman-punk-pageant?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jubilee review \u2013 rude and raucous return for Jarman&#8217;s punk pageant Chris Goode directs Toyah Willcox in a wild reimagining of Derek Jarman\u2019s film about a time-travelling queen and a generation with no future \u2018Welcome to Jubilee,\u201d says Amyl Nitrate near the start of Chris Goode\u2019s reimagining of Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978 punk movie. The straight-talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,27,110,50],"tags":[1754,489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884"}],"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=27884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27886,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions\/27886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}