{"id":27939,"date":"2017-11-18T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27939"},"modified":"2017-11-18T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:14:18","slug":"louder-than-war-jubilee-manchester-royal-exchange-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/louder-than-war-jubilee-manchester-royal-exchange-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Louder Than War: Jubilee: Manchester, Royal Exchange \u2013 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/louderthanwar.com\/jubilee-manchester-royal-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/louderthanwar.com\/jubilee-manchester-royal-exchange\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27940 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"louderthanwar17a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/louderthanwar17a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Jubilee, originally a film by Derek Jarman released in 1978 is updated for the 21st century at The Royal Exchange, Manchester. Nigel Carr reports back for Louder Than War.<\/p>\n<p>Denounced by Vivienne Westwood at the time of its original release in 1978 as failing to represent punk, Derek Jarman\u2019s Jubilee was a social statement on the breakdown of modern society. Anarchy ruled, policemen got firebombed and Queen Elizabeth, transported from the sixteenth century by the occultist John Dee, surveyed a decaying dystopian, modern Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward forty years and \u2018nothing has changed\u2019, \u2018nothing has worked\u2019. Gloriously narrated by Travis Alabanza\u2019s Amyl Nitrate, the themes are brought bang up to date in a dense, visceral allegory of a still decaying Britain with references as disparate as Brexit, Grenfell \u2013 \u2018Tower blocks are built to kill the poor\u2019 and \u2018Isis, Isis Isis!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/louderthanwar.com\/jubilee-manchester-royal-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Louder Than War<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jubilee, originally a film by Derek Jarman released in 1978 is updated for the 21st century at The Royal Exchange, Manchester. Nigel Carr reports back for Louder Than War. Denounced by Vivienne Westwood at the time of its original release in 1978 as failing to represent punk, Derek Jarman\u2019s Jubilee was a social statement on [&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":[1754,394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939"}],"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=27939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27941,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27939\/revisions\/27941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}