sLiterary, Second Life: Of shipwrecked twins separated in a foreign
land, love triangles mixed with identity confusion, and girl
masquerading as guy falling in love with her noble... The SL
Shakespeare Company takes a brief hiatus from Hamlet to pursue a
full length performance of Twelfth Night-broken down into
"bite-size" chunks in a series of full-costume staged readings. The
production will be performed by a moving cast, and audience members
from the last week who wish to enlist would have the possible
chance to make the cast.
According to director Enniv Zarf, "This production is an
experimental way of performing Shakespeare. But hey we are in
Second Life. If we can't try it here, where else could we possibly
try this." Ina Centaur, Artistic Director, tells of the visual
differences in this production, "The SL Shakespeare Company is
known for our unlimited extravagance in visual adornments and
animations. Because it is a staged reading, the overall look of
this particular production will be distinctly different. The
outfits will be grayscale to emphasize that this is a staged
reading, and because we have a possible shifting cast with the same
person playing multiple characters on the staged reading stage, we
may use scripted changing sculpted masks."
The performances are from June 20 to July 20, an Act a week,
every Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 11 Am, and Sundays as 3 PM.
The SL Shakespeare Company is the premier professional
Shakespeare performance troupe in the virtual world of Second Life.
The Company performs in a meticulously accurate replica of the
Globe Theatre (
http://visit.slshakespeare.com/
). Since 2007, it has continued to provide immersive live
Shakespearean theatre accessible to anyone anywhere in the world
with a high speed Internet connection.
For more details on this and other SL Shakespeare Company
productions, please visit
http://playbills.slshakespeare.com/