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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 their tradition of 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

SL Globe Theatre Pit entrance: http://SLurl.com/secondlife/Shakespeare/255/255/25

SL Globe Theatre Main entrance: http://SLurl.com/secondlife/sLiterary/23/13/23