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And to follow up: I also made a vid this year! (for scribe, making me two for two this winter on 'going to someone's house and lying to their face about the fact that I had not been assigned to them in a fandom holiday exchange' ... friendship is a wondrous thing).



(Also on AO3 here)

This is the first proper multi-source vid I have made and also gave me the opportunity to collect a dragon's hoard of Twelfth Nights; since I got some questions in comments, a breakdown of the sources is as follows as well as my impressions of skimming through them very fast looking for matchable clips:

Twelfth Night (1996 film): baby Helena Bonham Carter is here, and also Toby Stephens and Imogen Stubbs. A perfectly solid Twelfth Night with a lot of great moustachio'd-Viola footage but unhelpfully mixes & mashes up its scenes in such a way that I had a hard time finding the most homoerotic visuals until it was almost too late. Antonio is sad at the end, which is helpful, but the camera is very zoomed out and focused on Ben Kingsley while he does it, which is not

Twelfth Night (National Theater Live 2017): this is the one with Tamsin Grieg as Malvolia! I was already fond of this one and got fonder because it was both my highest quality source (visually) and also my most dynamic (in terms of movement and staging; bless the Orsino/Viola boxing scene) and also EVERYONE makes out and visibly emotes and pines at each other in ways that are very clear and viddable, though it still zooms out too far on sad Antonio at the end

Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company 2017): this is the one with vaguely Ottoman costuming where Viola wears a gold robe and cute little maroon hat; desperately want to see it in full but unfortunately could only find the couple of scenes that they put up on YouTube, which, fortunately for me, were all very homoerotic. Very sad I couldn't fit Orsino painting artistic male nudes into the vid but sometimes one has to murder a darling

Twelfth Night (Public Theater 2018): I got to see this musical version live a few years ago and I'm SO sad the clips that are up on YouTube are so minimal, and for some reason very focused on Sebastian, Antonio, and Malvolio, which did balance out the Royal Shakespeare Company clips that were all Viola, Orsino and Olivia ... anyway the cheery Malvolio in the car trunk, the confused Sebastian in the blue vest and the very earnest Antonio in the do-rag come from here

Twelfth Night (Globe Theater 2012): this is the all-male Extremely Historically Accurate production which unfortunately uses such VERY stylized staging and movement and such stiff camerawork that was shockingly challenging to find good clips for vidding ... felt important however to include nonetheless so whenever something clear and dramatic DID happen I tried to use it

Twelfth Night (1986 film): this is the very 80s one with the David Bowie-esque Viola where they walk off into the air at the end -- it was a very fortuitous find from YouTube which also includes a very baby Geoffrey Rush as Sir Andrew, who unfortunately did not make it into the vid although if I'd had another verse to play with I would have tried to do a sad Sir Andrew verse probably. He was adored once!

Twelfth Night | Dvenadtsataya noch (1955 film): another lucky YouTube find! This is a midcentury Soviet Twelfth Night that I really want to watch in full, I'm so curious about the adaptation choices and what they kept & cut. Unsurprisingly glories less in homoeroticism than most of my other sources, but has a lot of helpful lute-strumming footage, which does help make up for it for my purposes here ...

The Animated Tales: Twelfth Night (1992): big shout out to wickedtrue who let me know that a.) this exists and b.) can be found on DailyMotion! Given that this is a whole Twelfth Night squeezed into thirty minutes I did not expect it to be my most important source but in fact this ended up being VITAL and without it I genuinely don't think the vid would have worked at all, those little stop-motion puppets are just so expressive and visually clear about what is happening at all times!

She's the Man (2006): God I love this stupid film. If you're not familiar with it, Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum are here, and they're doing Twelfth Night on a soccer team, and it's a gem! and also very helpful to my specific purposes here for visually signifying We're Getting Weird With Twelfth Night!

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Meel Bros Pictures): special thanks to this three-minute YouTube video for children for another important Moustache Viola

Special thanks also to my betas innerbrat, shati who kindly let me describe to her at length all the parts of the plot of Twelfth Night that do not appear in She's The Man, and aria who told me (among other very important advice) that I should have more revolving Malvolio, which is TRUE and yet tragically impossible as only one of my sources has actual footage of a Malvolio revolving! This remains my greatest regret.

In the past two weeks, I have seen two children's musicals. One was New Repertory Theater's The Snow Queen, which jinian has already posted about, and genarti has promised to post about, and littledust has made a number of pointed tweets about, so I'm just going to ... let that unfortunate conglomeration of snow bees, talking flowers and poor directorial judgment sit where it's lying for a while.

INSTEAD I am going to talk about A.R.T.'s The Pirate Princess, the Twelfth Night MUSICAL PIRATE AU, which genarti and I went to see tonight and ( which was everything we wanted it to be AND MORE! )