WERE THE WORLD MINE: Tom Gustafson Interview
Tanner Cohen, Nathaniel David Becker in Were the World Mine
Q&A with Tom Gustafson Intro
Were the World Mine is an "expansion" of your 2003 short Faeries. How did you come up with the idea for Faeries?
I loved the idea of a teenager in his basement working away at a potion that would make people gay, probably because I always wished I had one. That idea seemed too silly to stand on its own, so my partner ([Cory Krueckeberg,] co-writer of WTWM) suggested I ground it in something. We started thinking of literature that you are forced to read in school, and Midsummer seemed like a perfect match.
I haven’t watched Faeries. [...]
by Andre Soares | December 2, 2008
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WERE THE WORLD MINE: Q&A with Tom Gustafson
Nathaniel David Becker, Tanner Cohen in Were the World Mine
Just last week, I watched the romantic, dramatic-comedy musical Were the World Mine from beginning to end for the third time. (I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched just the way-out-there — as in Queen meets Rocky Horror — musical numbers.)
Co-written by partners Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson — inspired by Gustafson’s 2003 short Faeries and by William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream — and directed by Gustafson, Were the World Mine tells the story of a small-town teen, Timothy (Tanner Cohen), the ostracized gay guy inevitably in love with the captain of his school’s rugby team, Jonathon (Nathaniel David Becker).
Initially, Timothy’s sole means of escape from [...]
by Andre Soares | December 2, 2008
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