#also filippa as viola

[booksandmore]

all im saying is oliver and james as antonio and sebastian from twelfth night

#going to jail for ur homie? check #being presumed dead (james)(sebastian)? check #being utterly devoted to ur bestie? check #also filippa as viola #AND ALSO alexander and meredith as benedick and beatrice would be HILARIOUS like the romance part might be cringe but everything else would #be HILARIOUS I PROMIS #and wren as hero no debate #unfortunately i think james is the only fit for claudio which is a shame because i hate claudio #richard could be don pedro?? idk #but i can kinda see james and meredith for beatrice and benedick hmmm #james farrow #oliver marks #if we were villains #iwwv #shakespeare #twelfth night #yk. because james and meredith hate each other

[mistressaccost]

IWWV shakespeare castings

i was making these cast lists for myself last night because i couldn’t sleep or stop thinking about this book! so i just thought i’d share because i know a lot of people love these characters. if you have a different casting or want to add on with another show, please do! i just thought this was fun haha

Merchant of Venice

Shylock: Alexander

Portia: Meredith

Antonio: Richard

Bassanio: James

Jessica: Wren

Gratanio: Oliver

Nerissa: Filippa 

Lorenzo: Colin

okay, let me explain. i think the iwwv characters fit these characters so well. but the antonio/bassanio relationship would definitely get messy for richard and james. like i think richard would be a great antonio and james a great bassanio... individually. together? i'm scared lol. the murder might happen all over again. i would have loved to put oliver in there with james!! because to me, this relationship is the heart of the play. but there’s not another place for richard, so then there’d definitely be a murder haha. but whatever is happening there, i think shylock always steals the show. and alexander could bring such a devastating and tragic undercut to him. and mer could do such a mean portia, i love it.

Twelfth Night

Viola: Wren

Olivia: Mer

Orsino: James

Malvolio: Richard

Sebastian: Oliver

Maria: Filippa

Toby: Alexander

Andrew: Colin

Feste, Fabian, Antonio??

alexander would have also made a great Feste but we he already got to be the Fool in Lear and i just wanted to see pip, alex, and colin prank richard haha. it’s the superior plot after all 

Much Ado About Nothing

Leonata: Meredith

Beatrice: Filippa

Benedick: Oliver

Claudio: James

Hero: Wren

Don Pedro: Richard

Don Jon: Alexander

i know. this is kinda wild and all over the place. but just imagine a matriarch scorning and renouncing Hero... isn’t that almost more heartbreaking? and i cant decide between benedick and claudio, i kept switching them back and forth. i finally put oliver as benedick because i think he’d have more chemistry with pip. and although this is another ‘love sick idiot’ role for james at first, i think it progresses to so much more. like personally i HATE claudio by the end, so i think he could have fun with that. i could still see oliver and james switching tho! i like both ways.

Hamlet

Hamlet: Oliver

Horatio: Pip

Claudius/Ghost: Richard

Gertrude: Meredith

Polonius: Colin

Ophelia: Wren

Laertes: James

Player: Alexander

i kinda went off the rails again with this one but i’m into it, i think it works. let oliver and pip shine a little! ik i already gave them much ado but they deserve the world so i’m not sorry 😋  i could also see james as hamlet, oliver as horatio, and pip as laertes. but that felt a bit obvious and boring. something about oliver and pip doing 5.1 together feels so right. and ik horatio is mentioned as a good role for pip early in the book. although ‘he that thou knowest thine’ kinda belongs to james and oliver tho huh... ahh well

Tempest

Prospero: Alexander

Miranda: Wren

Ariel: Pip

Caliban: Richard

Ferdinand: James

Queen Alonsa: Meredith

Gonzalo: Oliver

and the best casting for last! they just fit these characters so well! the other castings were a little more experimental, but this one feels perfect to me. let me know what you think!

#if we were villains #shakespeare #iwwv #oliver marks #james farrow #Filippa Kosta #Meredith Dardenne #Richard Stirling #Wren Stirling #Alexander Vass #james x oliver #oliver x james