The SL Shakespeare Company presents its third miniproduction - or, our first Act Production (AP1) - the entire unabridged first act of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. It’s the culmination of our summer training through the tag-team staged reading series of the full length Twelfth Night, now adapted to take advantage of all that SL has to offer — from multiple custom sets to changes in global lighting to international subtitles, providing closed captioning for all.
2008 Miniseason Showtimes:
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
As most of you who have been following this blog know, our upcoming production of Twelfth Night, Act 1 opens in November 2008… not November 2009. The play programme sponsorship details link has been corrected.
(Thanks to DigitalJack for pointing out this error!)
The SL Shakespeare Company offers logo placement for your brand in our play programmes for an unbeatable price of only L$1000. Programmes are actively distributed during each show, and dispensers, issuu, and our website will permanently distribute each program. That’s less than $3 US dollars for a *permanent* ad.
More details here: http://twelfthnight.
Tags: advertisement, programme, sponsorship
Our upcoming production of “Twelfth Night: Act 1″, aka, “MP3″ (MiniProduction 3) will also be known as “AP1″, or “Act Production 1″ — both to minimize terminology confusion between the standard media/colloquial usage of “mp3″ for a music compression format, and also since these productions are entire acts, and not just “extended” scenes like in the first two Hamlet miniproductions. For more information on production serial codes, please see http://twelfthnight.slshakespeare.com/blog/about/a-note-on-production-serials/
The SL Globe Theatre, a venue that can support over 200 avatars simultaneously, welcomes events scheduled during days when SL Shakespeare Company shows are not scheduled. Public events are free (but you can also book the four island simulator theatre all to yourself for your private event).
Details here: http://twelfthnight.slshakespeare.com/blog/you-your-event-at-the-sl-globe-theatre/
(Clarification)
Earlier today, I sent out a notice about “You!: Your Event at the Globe Theatre”. Received a couple of similar questions, so this is just a quick note to clarify:
If you wish to hold an event open to the public, it’s free of charge for you to hold it at the Globe. (”Private performance” pricing is if you want the Globe blocked to access only to a certain group.)
When you’re working on a virtually non-existent budget, you have to be pretty sharp with things. Though our costumed tag-team staged reading series this summer did cast more actors than we’d need (as well as the upcoming audio book and act-along-karoke versions), not all actors are available for the show this season. In case we don’t have a Toby, we might just cut out his few lines of “letcherie” in Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 5. We’ll just have a silent actor “step in” while appearing “drunk” and collapse. The skip will start from after Olivia’s “By mine honor half drunk” and end at “Toby’s Well, it’s all one (inclusive)”, to omit Toby’s voice parts and yet appear seamless. Olivia and Feste can still have their little aside on drunkenness, and Feste can still leave escorting Toby out. (In which case, Feste’s voice will likely also be the voice for Toby.)
Tags: !Twelfth Night, cuts, drunkenness, feste, letcherie, Olivia, prompt-book, Toby
SL Shakespeare Company’s full-length Twelfth Night, Act 1.
The scansion playscript (with syllable counts: (pdf) (docx)
Director’s scansion: TBA
The OEP1 playscript: (pdf) (celtx)
The OEP1 playscript (highlighted)
The AP1 playscript: (pdf) (celtx)
“MiniPrompt book (OEP1)”: (pdf) (celtx)
“MiniPrompt book (MP3)”: (pdf) (celtx)
Tags: Playscript, prompt-book
The outfits have been accumulating for quite some time, and the sets are coming along. Here’s a very early sneak peek of things - please note these are raw unedited photography shots.
Tags: flickr, preproduction
Several have asked for audition info, but we are not currently accepting auditions for voice roles for Twelfth Night. Auditions for Shakespearean plays are generally in the spring and early summer. However, auditions for Challenge Production occur through the year, as each CP arises.
We are, however, in need of non-speaking actors for Twelfth Night.
Actors with speaking roles in the Twelfth Night cast have spent the entire summer rehearsing, participating in our summer tag-team staged reading series.
Tags: Auditions
The SL Shakespeare Company’s Twelfth Night opens in exactly 1 month from today on SLSC Thursday, November 13, 2008.
