Play Programme Sponsorship
The Metaverse Shakespeare Company offers logo placement for your brand or special message placement in our play programmes. Beautiful, unique, and distinctive — imagine your brand (or special message) showcased with the classiest brand in the metaverse, the Metaverse Shakespeare Company.
Play programmes are distributed at each corresponding live show, and also permanently in free dispensers at the SL Globe Theatre and the SL Globe Theatre Gift Shop, as well as on the web. They contain detailed information about each production, and are especially heavy on the visuals.
Many of our live public shows receive over two hundred audience members present at the same time in our 4-sim venue. On average: Hundreds of programmes are distributed inworld each month, and our website receives hundreds of thousands of hits per month. Each logo placement in a programme is an affordable L$1000 (about US$3.75), once and forever — because, a play programme is forever.* (Price valid until 6/31/2010)
The following productions are currently available for play programme sponsorship:
Production Serial Number AP2 and OEP2 - “Twelfth Night: Act 2″: Our upcoming Shakespearean show is a full ensemble extravagant SL Shakespeare Company-style performance of of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, one of the Bard’s most accessible and fun plays. The play is directed by SLSC Artistic Director Ina Centaur, with special note towards scansion with virtual world dramatization techniques. We want to remain true to the scripture of the greatest writer of all times (indeed, Twelfth Night is the only play that isn’t under suspicion in versioning due to varying quartos and folios), so we’re sticking with the full-length un-edited script - but we’re breaking it down into segments. We will present the entire Act 2 in our upcoming “Act Production #2 (AP2), which will be an Open-Ended Run (OEP2).”
- + March 1, 2009 (Production Serial Number: OEP1): Open-Ended Run of Twelfth Night: Act 1 - every Sunday at 1 PM and Tuesday at 6 PM SL Time, starting March 1. - 2010 Encore forthcoming.
- + March 2, 2010 (Production Serial Number: OEP1 - current): Open-Ended Run of Twelfth Night: Act 2 - every Sunday at 1 PM and Tuesday at 6 PM SL Time, starting March 2.
Midyear 2010 (Production Serial Number: CPx): We are planning on invoking the age-old RL Broadway tradition of indefinite open-ended runs with several possible Challenge Productions. Up for consideration are several Chekhov plays. Suggestions are welcome, as well as guest directorship.
Each production is roughly 30 minutes long in content, generally with an opening introduction and closing spiel, totaling about one hour. Some performance dates are followed by special “behind-the-scenes” segments. Please note that fees are accessed per production serial number, as the the programme used for each production varies.
Here is a sample “bare bones” sponsorship logo page (between 9 and 16 logo’s per page, the size of your logo would depend on its aspect ratio, and the exact color scheme would vary with each programme): 
If you’re interested in purchasing a space for your brand or special message, simply drop by the SL Globe Theatre and pay the Programme Sponsorship Kiosk. Next, please email us a copy of your logo at production@SLshakespeare.com (Make sure you add in this keyword to the subject line: PROGRAMME).
* Note, we reserve the right to deny placement for brands or messages that become unlawful or violate intellectual property principles. No refunds are possible with this sponsorship package.
About:
Headquartered in the virtual world of Second Life (SL), the Metaverse Shakespeare Company (MSC) is the flagship project of sLiterary’s Virtual Reality Shakespeare Initiative (VRSI). MSC is a professional virtual theatre company that embraces the best of what the metaverse has to offer. While it is primarily known to provide quality live Shakespearean theatre available to anyone in any location, MSC is also the curator of the most historically accurate theatres and architecture in virtual worlds relating to William Shakespeare.
Examples of past programmes are free at the SL Globe Theatre Gift Shop and several other dispenser locations, and also viewable on the web directly at http://programmes.SLshakespeare.com (Please note that the Hamlet programmes are prototype programmes in our “pilot year”, and completely ad-free. The actual programmes for your sponsorship will be longer and more detailed.)
MP1: Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1 Extended (pdf 5 MB) or Issuu
MP2: Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 “The Mousetrap” (pdf 17 MB) or Issuu
AP1 (Former Serial MP3): Twelfth Night, Act 1 (pdf 3 MB) or Issuu
OEP1: Twelfth Night, Act 1 - 2009 Open Ended Run (pdf 5 MB) or Issuu
Drop by the Programme Sponsorship vendor to order an ad or special message today! Don’t delay–drop by now to grab a free sculpted rose by just clicking on the vendor.
