{"id":41381,"date":"2024-06-29T16:19:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=41381"},"modified":"2024-06-29T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T15:19:59","slug":"must-see-theatre-trafford-tanzi-kevin-maguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/must-see-theatre-trafford-tanzi-kevin-maguire\/","title":{"rendered":"Must See Theatre: Trafford Tanzi\/Kevin Maguire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>EdFringe | Trafford Tanzi starring Toyah Willcox! The play that changed my life \u2013 Kevin Maguire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having given Andrew Pierce the opportunity to share the story of the musical that changed his life \u2013 it was Mamma Mia! you may recall \u2013 it seemed only fair to offer Kevin Maguire the same courtesy, especially as the pair\u2019s Edinburgh Fringe show, Andrew Pierce vs Kevin Maguire (Assembly Rooms, 8-10 August), pits them against each other. So, in the interest of maintaining an even playing field, here, Maguire shares the piece of theatre that \u2018changed his life\u2019\u2026 Toyah Willcox in Trafford Tanzi.<\/p>\n

\u2018Time erased exactly why I went to see punk princess Toyah Willcox hitting a wrestling ring\u2019s canvass during 10 rounds over three hours, yet the exhilaration \u2013 mine, not hers, just to be clear \u2013 is as fresh today as that evening 41 years ago and counting. You never forget the magical impact of your first play, the memory sticking like first day at school, first day at work, first football game, first kiss.
\nI was a late debutant to the theatre, growing up in a Tyneside working class home where money was tight and the stage a social world away from our life. There\u2019s no need to get out an unfeasibly small violin. Childhood is recalled happily even if now I recognise it could\u2019ve been enriched culturally.<\/p>\n

Never going to the York Theatre Royal during three years at the city\u2019s university is explained blushingly by hanging with a group, at least one of whom subsequently came to see Willcox in her cartoonish outfit, who, like me, preferred football, playing the fool and doing nothing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at Must See Theatre<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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