{"id":32245,"date":"2019-12-03T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=32245"},"modified":"2019-12-03T22:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:38:41","slug":"christmas-2019-day-3-the-great-british-panto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2019-day-3-the-great-british-panto\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2019: Day 3: The Great British Panto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas2018b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"151\" \/>Christmas 2016<\/span><\/strong>, saw <em>Toyah Willcox and the Great British Panto<\/em> t<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">ake place. The festive event was held at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, aka the V&amp;A, London. A fascinating event, with Toyah discussing the history, origins and traditions of pantomime, as well as her own 20-year panto career. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Toyah Willcox\u2019s career has encompassed chart-hits, novels and roles on stage and screen, from working at the National Theatre to cult-classic Quadrophenia. She is also a celebrated pantomime performer, having spent many a season playing a variety of roles from Principal Boy to Wicked Queen. Join her as part of the V&amp;A\u2019s Christmas Festivities as she celebrates one of her and Britain\u2019s best loved artforms.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Toyah will be in conversation with Senior Curator and Pantomime Editor of the British Theatre Guide, Simon Sladen.<\/em> (Photos \u00a9 Damon King)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/vanda16a.jpg\" alt=\"vanda16a\" width=\"600\" height=\"293\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2016, saw Toyah Willcox and the Great British Panto take place. The festive event was held at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, aka the V&amp;A, London. A fascinating event, with Toyah discussing the history, origins and traditions of pantomime, as well as her own 20-year panto career. Toyah Willcox\u2019s career has encompassed chart-hits, novels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2290,16],"tags":[2194,2036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245"}],"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=32245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32248,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions\/32248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}