FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2008 November 6
Contact: Lora Constantine
http://SLurl.com/secondlife/sLiterary/23/13/23
The SL Shakespeare Company Returns to Shakespeare with Twelfth Night—
In Their Usual Trademarked Extravagance…
Shakespeare, Second Life: The SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC) will
perform a full ensemble performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night:
Act 1 in a special short-run advance miniseason as part of their Fall
Season 2008 repertoire. Opening on SLSC Thursday, November 13th
(following a “sneak peek” on November 12th), the full-length Act 1 is
the first part of the culmination of a summer’s worth of
rehearsal-performances in SLSC’s tag-team staged reading series of
Twelfth Night.
Maintaining the Company’s tradition of excellence in visual and theatrical
extravagance, the miniproduction also introduces the usage of multiple
rotating sets, incognito animation preloading, global lighting and
weather control to SLSC stagecraft technologies. Live dynamic camera
control by a director finetunes the performance with a cinematic
appeal, while international subtitles, the SLSC’s “Pay as you Will”
philosophy, and the play’s location in the confluence of four island
simulators of the SL Globe Theatre make the performance accessible to
as many as possible.
Directed by Ina Centaur and Voice Directed by Enniv Zarf, the
production stars MadameThespian Underhill, Joff Fassnacht, Prospero
Frobozz, Ludo Merit, Maedin Tureaud, and Lorne Harlequin, and also a
motley cast of “silent actors” who create a different variation of a
background crowd each time.
Miniseason schedule (All times SLT or GMT-8):
Wednesday, Nov 12 - 11 am “sneak peek”
Thursday, Nov 13 - high noon
Friday, Nov 14 - 1 PM
Saturday, Nov 15 - 2 pm - (ticketed)*
Sunday - no show
Monday, Nov 17 - high noon
* Most of our shows at the SL GLobe Theatre are free, but VIP/ticketed shows
charge a nominal admissions fee of L$500. The smaller audience may entice.
>>> ABOUT The Company: <<<
The SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC) is a resident-funded and resident-
supported professional theatre company that embraces the best of what
Second Life (SL) has to offer. Since 2007, we have been making history by
providing extravagant and unforgettable theatrical performances on Second
Life. With each show, we continue to shape the field by developing and re-
leasing a new technology for virtual theatre on Second Life. Our vision is to
make live Shakespearean theatre available to anyone anywhere with a com-
puter to create new possibilities in entertainment, culture, and commerce for
residents of a diverse, unbounded geosphere. Those are the side effects of
our mission: to make Shakespeare cool again!
>>> Latest News: http://blog.SLshakespeare.com
>>> ABOUT The SL Globe Theatre <<<
SL Globe Theatre, sLiterary is a virtual reconstruction of the Original Globe
Theatre that historians conjecture stood in Shakespeare’s days. It is meticulously
adapted as a functioning theatre in the massively multiuser virtual world of Second
Life. The SL Globe Theatre is the most historically accurate rendition of the Globe
Theatre on the Internet. Its SL rendition is set in the confluence of 4 island simulators
— thus allowing for the maximal number of local audience members.
>>> Web preview: http://visit.SLshakespeare.com
