#twelfth night

[dduane]

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night

Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

"Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”"

[susiephone]

ever since someone pointed out to me that shakespeare wrote "twelfth night" after one of his twin children died, it's hit different.

like we know precious little about shakespeare's life and even less about what was on his mind when he wrote each play, but....he wrote a story where the twins torn apart by fate reunite, where the brother thought to be dead and gone forever actually miraculously survived, where the emotional climax of the story isn't the various love triangles getting sorted out, but the twins finding each other again and getting to live happily ever after.

like. fuck.

[aviewtodeath]

hello twelfth night fans. is thi̇s anything

[thejagermeister]

the curse of local theatre is that a show can change you forever and there is no recording of it anywhere at all and after a few years all you have are scattered memories and the knowledge that you were different before.

[beemovieerotica]

[queerhamlet]

tiktokers who say classic lit is bad because its not relatable 1. thats not the fucking point 2. you've clearly never read twelfth night as a trans bisexual

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

eldest daughters don’t need therapy, they just need to lose everything in a shipwreck, dress up like a boy, and accidentally cause a bisexual love triangle

[aviewtodeath]

this fanfic shit is easy