{"id":27917,"date":"2017-11-10T18:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27917"},"modified":"2017-11-10T18:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:17:30","slug":"north-west-end-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/north-west-end-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"North West End: Jubilee &#8211; Royal Exchange, Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northwestend.co.uk\/index.php\/professional-reviews\/manchester\/2560-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/northwestend.co.uk\/index.php\/professional-reviews\/manchester\/2560-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27918 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"nwe17a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nwe17a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a>Another five star review of <em>Jubilee<\/em> at Royal Exchange, Manchester &#8211; This one by Joe Flynn at <a href=\"http:\/\/northwestend.co.uk\/index.php\/professional-reviews\/manchester\/2560-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>North West End<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the 40th year anniversary of the iconic punk film the Royal Exchange wrench Jubilee squealing and with a knife to its throat into 2017. Exploring political unrest, social inequality via themes of race, ability, sex, gender and class to name but a few, throw in a failed justice system and Jubilee highlights how our modern world has learnt no lessons from history and the real references to today\u2019s world are tragically abundant.<\/p>\n<p>The story is of a murderous subculture gang taking back control of their own desires and delivering their very own flavour of justice. They are surveyed by original Jubilee cast member and punk girl icon Toyah Willcox, playing a time-travelling Queen Elizabeth who is serenely guided by an angel to witness their turmoil and ultimate plight of selling-out. Willcox\u2019s presence onstage was a comforting link to the bygone anarchy of the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s but didn\u2019t really feel like a crutch; Chris Goode\u2019s adaptation is true to the original but still painfully relevant to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/northwestend.co.uk\/index.php\/professional-reviews\/manchester\/2560-jubilee-royal-exchange-manchester\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>North West End<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another five star review of Jubilee at Royal Exchange, Manchester &#8211; This one by Joe Flynn at North West End. On the 40th year anniversary of the iconic punk film the Royal Exchange wrench Jubilee squealing and with a knife to its throat into 2017. Exploring political unrest, social inequality via themes of race, ability, [&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":[1754,1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27917"}],"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=27917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27925,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27917\/revisions\/27925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}