Live Theater in Second Life : Hamlet I, i

Posted on February 25th, 2008 — permalink

The Second Life Shakespeare Company has the ambitious goal of putting on a live production of Hamlet in-world, using voice and either actors controlling their avatars, or (they hope) their own bot technology for doing more sophisticated movement. They’ve already made one Machinema version of Act I, Scene i. Starting this Thursday (Feb. 28), they’ll be doing several live performances of Act I, Scene i (with a bit of stuff thrown in from a later scene). This performance will only last about 10 minutes, but it is kind of interesting to be trying to do live theater in world.

I auditioned for the SLSC, and will be playing the role of Francisco (the smallest part, it turns out) in the upcoming performance.

Poster

Update: for those of you not versed in Second Life lore, SLT = “Second Life Time”, which is the same as pacific time (PST right now).


3 Responses to “Live Theater in Second Life : Hamlet I, i”

  1. The Grid Live » Second Life News for February 26, 2008 Says:

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  2. Lys Says:

    Maybe this is a dumb question, but what is “SLT”? Same as PST, since Linden is based in SF?

  3. Troy McLuhan Says:

    SLT means Second Life Time, which is the time in San Francisco (which alternates between PST and PDT).