{"id":39236,"date":"2022-12-20T22:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=39236"},"modified":"2022-12-21T05:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T05:27:59","slug":"christmas-2022-countdown-day-16-the-great-british-panto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2022-countdown-day-16-the-great-british-panto\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2022 Countdown: Day 16: The Great British Panto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30153 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas2018d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>Christmas 2016<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">, saw <em>Toyah Willcox and the Great British Panto<\/em> t<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">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><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The V&amp;A, in anticipation of the festive event, said:<em> &#8220;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. <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><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><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/vanda16a.jpg\" alt=\"vanda16a\" width=\"600\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/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. The V&amp;A, in anticipation of the festive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3031],"tags":[3032,2036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39236"}],"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=39236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39242,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39236\/revisions\/39242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}