{"id":27899,"date":"2017-11-08T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27899"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:35:41","slug":"the-telegraph-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-telegraph-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telegraph: Jubilee, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/theatre\/what-to-see\/nihilism-nudity-no-future-derek-jarmans-bleak-britain-comes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/theatre\/what-to-see\/nihilism-nudity-no-future-derek-jarmans-bleak-britain-comes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24869 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"telegraph16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/telegraph16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><strong>Nihilism, nudity, no future: Derek Jarman&#8217;s bleak Britain comes pungently to the stage &#8211; Jubilee, Royal Exchange, Manchester, review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do you take a defining film from the punk era and reconceive it for the stage, 40 years on, when the V-flicking message of punk was \u201cno future\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978 vision of Britannia sinking below the waves during the flag-waving year of the Silver Jubilee revelled in images of dystopian collapse: post-industrial wastelands, dismal interiors that no yet-to-be-conceived TV makeover programme could spruce up, random acts of senseless violence. It was Beckett\u2019s Endgame meets A Clockwork Orange, with melancholy traces of Shakespeare \u2013 and it was designed to look like the end of the world was nigh.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here we now are, and many of the gobbing youths of yesteryear turned out fine, some of them doing very nicely indeed thanks to the Thatcher revolution (Malcolm McLaren, \u201cgodfather\u201d of punk, at least had the grace and courage to acknowledge that, recalling a \u201cfailed, miserable country\u201d before her arrival).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"Jubilee, Royal Exchange, Manchester, review\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Telegraph<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nihilism, nudity, no future: Derek Jarman&#8217;s bleak Britain comes pungently to the stage &#8211; Jubilee, Royal Exchange, Manchester, review How do you take a defining film from the punk era and reconceive it for the stage, 40 years on, when the V-flicking message of punk was \u201cno future\u201d? Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978 vision of Britannia sinking [&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":[1754,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899"}],"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=27899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27900,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899\/revisions\/27900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}