Twelfth Night has always been my favorite Shakespeare play. Most folks don't know that Shakespeare can be hella queer -- and Twelfth Night is Shakespeare at his queerest.
But even at his queerest, Shakespeare is implicitly queer, never explicitly.
So I challenged myself to take the implicit queerness of Twelfth Night and make it explicit.
The result is What You Will: A Queer-er Shakespeare.
I kept the dialog from Twelfth Night almost entirely unchanged, using action and internal monologue to bring the queer to the surface where we can all see it.
In What You Will, the cross dressing Viola becomes a trans egg, slowly realizing that Cesario is who he really is. And the bisexual disaster Sebastian... stays a bisexual disaster, but this time gets a happier ending.
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