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Metaverse Shakespeare Company
The Metaverse Shakespeare Company (Previously The Second Life Shakespeare Company) formed in 2007, is a professional acting company who use the medium of Second Life to stage their performances and productions in The Second Life Globe Theatre.

SL Shakespeare Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL_Shakespeare_Company

Cyberformance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberformance

About
"In Shakespeare’s era, a group of thespians joined together to break grounds in creating revolutionary theatres and plays. Their work can be said to be the foundational basis for modern theatre. The SL Shakespeare Company exists to relive that spirit; by bringing to the metaverse the Bard’s plays—which were written and performed in an era of nascent theatre—we hope to break grounds in developing theatre in Second Life by creating a kind of theatre only possible in the metaverse.

The SL Shakespeare Company’s task over the next few years is to bring to Second Life live productions of all of the bard’s plays. To do so, we will be integrating some esoteric cutting-edge technology with the best of theatrical talent.

Despite Second Life’s temptation in arrays of readily-available prefabs that could resurrect out of thin air the most complete stage sets, we will tend to the classical ideals of elegance, order, and balance. Our productions will be minimal in sets and prop usage, akin to black box theatre, focusing on story and acting. We will, however, take care to outfit our actor avatars with the most historically accurate and most professional clothing, skin, eyes, shape, and hair possible—to complement their performance. To take on the potential for an arbitrary number of simultaneous performances—what Second Life can offer—we will be using cutting-edge bot technology. But, above all this, we will uphold the core of live theatre: ad lib and audience interaction will be fully possible.

Each production will be taken on and financed by a private producer who would pay a share to have access to the assets of the SL Shakespeare Company. Salient assets of the company include the following departments: Wardrobe, Animation, Technology, and SL Stagecraft. Our Wardrobe Department is equipped with fashionistas well aware of period-style clothing, props, and hair, and has exclusive access to handmade custom photorealistic skins, shape, and eyes by SLface.com. Our Animation Department works closely with our Technology Department to create avatar motions that appear seamless and natural for our live production avatar bots. Our “SLS” or SL Stagecraft department works closely with the producer of each play and our other departments to choreograph the final live production.

The premier production to open in 2008 is Hamlet, which is taken on by Ina Centaur Productions. Ina Centaur is also the founder of the SL Shakespeare Company, and will be contributing many of the Company’s foundational technologies and means."

http://slshakespeare.com/pages/about

Blog
http://twelfthnight.mshakespeare.com/blog/

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."

http://visit.slshakespeare.com

The Blackfriars Theatre
This re-construction of the Blackfriars Theatre in Second Life is one of two working models in the world. But, Centaur notes that the “Blackfriars Playhouse” re-constructed in RL in Staunton, Virginia is just one interpretation of the interior, without taking into account the actual building the playhouse was built into, “Blackfriars, as the name implies, has quite a lot to do with friars. In fact, the original playhouse was ‘built’ inside a building in a centuries-old stone friary… Nowadays, we would consider [the playhouse] just interior decoration or remodeling.” Centaur explains that from the perspective of a reconstruction historian, “The interesting part in re-creating this would be figuring out how to fit a (presumably) largely wooden interior into a stone chapel or even cathedral-like structure.”

http://llzane.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/the-world’s-first-complete-reconstruction-of-shakespeare’s-historic-blackfriars-theatre/

February 2008 - Hamlet Act 1, Scene 1
http://slshakespeare.com/pr/2008-02.txt

April 2008 - Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2
http://slshakespeare.com/pr/2008-04.txt

June 2008 - Twelfth Night
http://slshakespeare.com/pr/2008-06.txt

September 2008 - One's a Pawn of Time
http://slshakespeare.com/pr/2008-09.txt

November 2008 - Twelfth Night
http://slshakespeare.com/pr/2008-11.txt

December 2008 - Shakespeare on Ice
http://slshakespeare.com/pr/2008-12.txt

February 2009 - Twelfth Night, Act 1: The Open Ended Run
http://slshakespeare.com/pr/2009-02.txt

October 2010 - Closure
"The Shakespeare Primtings sLiterary and Skin City sims will go down on Oct 29 or thereabouts. The process in which sims are deactivated is not usually punctual – we aren’t sure exactly when the executioners would finally pull the plug, but when they do, it will be the end of our Second Life."