{"id":28257,"date":"2018-02-22T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=28257"},"modified":"2018-02-22T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:08:28","slug":"the-independent-jubilee-review-lyric-hammersmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-independent-jubilee-review-lyric-hammersmith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent: Jubilee Review, Lyric Hammersmith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"independent15a\"<\/a>Jubilee, Lyric, Hammersmith, London, review: In the Lyric Hammersmith’s fine tradition of reanimating controversial classics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Goode’s stage adaptation of Derek Jarman’s 1977 punk classic ‘Jubilee’, recasts Toyah Willcox who played Mad in the film, as Queen Elizabeth I, who time-travels to today<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s funny, isn’t it?\u201d says Amyl Nitrate, towards the end of the end of Chris Goode’s raucous, shrewd and free-wheelingly rude re-imagining of Derek Jarman’s cult movie.\u00a0 \u201cIn 1977, someone shouting “NO FUTURE” sounded like the most extreme nihilistic punk.\u00a0 Forty years on, it’s a fact.\u00a0 It’s mainstream climate science.\u201d\u00a0 To mark the ruby jubilee of Jubilee (1978), Goode’s stage version \u2014 a co-production between his company, the Lyric, Hammersmith and Manchester’s Royal Exchange \u2014 does more than pay tribute to the inherent theatricality in Jarman’s apocalyptic vision or recreate the paradoxical ethos of a broken Britain sodden with royalist propaganda during that flag-waving year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at The Independent<\/strong><\/a>. Review by Paul Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jubilee, Lyric, Hammersmith, London, review: In the Lyric Hammersmith’s fine tradition of reanimating controversial classics Chris Goode’s stage adaptation of Derek Jarman’s 1977 punk classic ‘Jubilee’, recasts Toyah Willcox who played Mad in the film, as Queen Elizabeth I, who time-travels to today \u201cIt’s funny, isn’t it?\u201d says Amyl Nitrate, towards the end of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110,50],"tags":[1781,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257"}],"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=28257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28258,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257\/revisions\/28258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}