"Sebastian and Olivia: married 2011 ... divorced 2012"

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I HAVE JUST SEEN THE MOST WONDERFUL, AWESOME, GAY, QUIRKY, FUNNY, PRODUCTION OF TWELFTH NIGHT... EVER.

I know of no better way to tell how wonderful it was than to talk about it at length. With pictures from the theater's site.

First, some context. Modern setting: Hollywood. Olivia and Orsino were actors; Toby was one, female, and two, some kind of

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[wherenoangel]

That sounds... interesting. I'm not usually a big fan of productions that add lines/modernize Shakespeare overmuch, but that sounds like fun. Haha @ Illyria Studios.
BUT WHY DIDN'T OLIVIA AND VIOLA GET MARRIEDDDD??

IMPORTANT QUESTION: If you put on a production/movie of Twelfth Night, when/where would you set it?

I heard the first few bars of that fanvid and I can't watch anymore. Why do Disney songs always make the best cracky fanvids? *sigh*

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The lines were mostly completely irrelevant. XD It was a lot of fun! And not at all overmodernized.

IDK THEY SHOULD HAVE!! I could actually barely see the credits form where I was sitting, so it's entirely possible that they did and I missed it. :P I'm going again on Friday, so I'll probably write a little bit about it again. FULL DETAILS ON THE STATUSES OF ALL MARRIAGES FORTHCOMING, let's say.

IDK... maybe in like, Austenian England? Just because it would be so fun to see the ~SHOCKING SCANDALOUSNESS~ of it all. Plus, Viola would really be putting herself out there. Independent women FTW.

OR... this is actually one of my "in a perfect world" settings for Caesar, but... 70s San Francisco, at the height of the gay rights movement. Mostly just because of THE GAY. XD

Okay, now you tell me yours. Or, I'll up the stakes: HAMLET.

Because Disney movies are basically 1 1/2 hour long cracky fanvids. XD

[wherenoangel]

I AWAIT THEM EAGERLY.

I have to agree that hippie!Twelfth Night is probably the best thing ever. Late '60s or early '70s SoCal. The clothes would be fabulous.
Orsino can run a male brothel

HAMLET. I've always had trouble placing it, but trashy 1980s!Hamlet would be interesting. Kind of like the alternate reality from Back to the Future II.

I'll tell you some other ones that I've actually had time to think about:
Romeo and Juliet: OUTER SPACE
Much Ado About Nothing: American West
Macbeth: 1940s noir

As You Like It in the Middle East might be interesting, too. IDEK.

Not always! Sometimes they are works of GENIUS.

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I think I've read about at least one production like that, actually. NO NO, NORCAL. MESSALINE AND ILLYRIA: WARRING COMMUNES, LOL (no that's not contradictory)
Wait, I thought he already did that...?

Woah okay... I have totally seen that movie, yes I have. Elsinore = Biff's tower skyscraper thing? That would be pretty awesome. And then scary to think, if Denmark's like that, what the hell's happening in France...?

OUTER SPACE IDEK BUT THAT'S AMAZING

I'm a Latin geek, so I'd love to see Hamlet set in ancient Rome. Not the republic (lol duh), or the empire (fuck that), but the kingdom, back when it was just a tiny little country with no land and the state was corrupt as HELL and everyone was killing off their parents and siblings and uncles and grandparents and godknowswhoelse for the crown. I can definitely, definitely see Hamlet going down there. Although it might be a bit of an oddity (Denmark and England were both savage and inhabited by Gauls... never mind the "more an antique Roman than a Dane" bit

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OR OR OR OR they could be on the hippie trail in the Middle East and sit around smoking hashish and eating watermelon /has clearly gotten too interested in her Afghanistan research paper

The more I think about it, the more I like it. Gertrude can wear silver lamee.
Wait what about France?

I have this whole sci-fi R&J movie in my head! IT HAS EXPLOSIONS AND DEATH AND GIANT ARMADILLOS AND ALIEN FLOWERS

I used to be an Egypt geek, but now I'm more of a Norse geek. Although I want to be a dual Egypt-Norse geek. I also am an England geek. And a wannabe-classical music geek.

And a giant blue floating Robin Williams!

I APPARENTLY SHALL HAVE TO DRAW EPIC SHAKESPEARE PICTURES NOW.

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Hippie trail in the Middle East? DO TELL.

Well, France is the party place (Polonius spying on his son &c), so if Denmark's like that France must be INSANE.

Ok, all I want to know about are the giant armadillos.

And the alien flowers.

I am... mostly just a Roman/Latin geek. Although also a Greek Mythology geek. If I knew more about ancient Greece, I could call myself a Greco-Roman geek, but I don't. Norse geekery is pretty cool. They had some badass gods.

WHO TURNS MONKEYS INTO ELEPHANTS WHILE SINGING, NOTHING CRACKY ABOUT THAT!

OBVIOUSLY THAT IS THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION.