Shakespeare, Second Life—The Metaverse Shakespeare Company (MSC), formerly SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC), next Tuesday will open its long-awaited 2010 Main Canon production of Twelfth Night, Act 2—“As you will it!” in an open-ended run to occur every Tuesday at 6 PM SLT (PT), and every Sunday at 1 PM SLT (PT). Set to occur at the 4-sim SL Globe Theatre (http://visit.mshakespeare.com) in the virtual world of Second Life—this live theatrical performance, available anywhere with an Internet connection, continues the troupe’s 2009 production of Twelfth Night, Act 1—but, with a fresher, riper take, and its own amalgam of the year’s innovations in virtual theatre.
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Continuing with the third installment of an epic 2009-2011 opus, the Metaverse Shakespeare Company on Tuesday will open Act 3 of an unabridged full-ensemble performance of Twelfth Night in a short-run Winter Preview Season to occur at the SL Globe Theatre on Tuesdays at 6 PM SLT and Sundays at 1 PM SLT between December 7 and December 21.
See a Malefaced Malvolio, live mocap swordfight animations, a set that attempts to convey the unity in the epicly-long Act 3, Scene 4 and more! — details at the full press release here.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 8, 2010
Contact: Lora Constantine
mShakespeare’s SOS Campaign Becomes Save Our Shakespeare:
Shakespeare, Second Life: The Metaverse Shakespeare Company (MSC), formerly SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC), today refreshes the MSC SOS Campaign, its grid-wide network of donation kiosks. The running total is still displayed instantly both inworld and on the web, but the SOS Campaign website has been updated at http://sos.mshakespeare.com and SOS has evolved from “Save Our Sims” to “Save Our Shakespeare.”
Artistic Director Ina Centaur two years ago eloquently expressed the greater significance of the Metaverse Shakespeare endeavor, “Our goal is to create a good within Second Life for the world to thrive from—because it is possible… [this] truly humanitarian cause that we are fighting for—to bring theatre to the farthest reaches of the world, to give Shakespeare to those who would not have had the chance to experience his words in the live and intimate form they were written for, to use this nascent medium to bring the most quintessential culture to the metaverse and beyond.”
In light of this abstract value which the sims have been platform for, those contributing to the cause will be effectively saving more than sims—they will be saving Shakespeare on Second Life, with its potential to unite the world. Perhaps phenomenal for a project of its scope, the Metaverse Shakespeare Company is completely independent of any external funding, resident-supported and resident-funded.
Anyone can help support the MSC SOS Campaign by donating to or rezzing a donation kiosk, available by clicking on any of the current kiosks at the SL Globe Theatre, or by visiting one of the kiosks listed at http://sos.mshakespeare.com
Launched in December 2008, the SOS Campaign, through the support of over a thousand residents, has raised over L$1.5 million in funds to help the Metaverse Shakespeare Company cover tier fees for three of its four island sims. In February 2010, the third sim—Primtings—became self-supporting due to Primtings Campaign, but continues to donate a corner of its sim space to MSC to maintain the 4-Sim SL Globe Theatre.
The SOS is now responsible for raising tier for just two island sims—Shakespeare and sLiterary. As with previous years, unused funds will remain in the MSC Endowment until needed. Any and all uses of publicly raised funds through the SOS Campaign will be reported to the MSC Transparency website at http://transparency.mshakespeare.com
Related PR’s:
SOS Campaign Launch – November 2008
SOS Campaign January 2009 Update
About the Metaverse Shakespeare Company (mShakespeare)
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.
Website: http://mshakespeare.com
Press Center: http://mshakespeare.com/press
Blog: http://blog.mshakespeare.com
Playbills: http://playbills.mshakespeare.com
Programmes: http://programmes.mshakespeare.com
About sLiterary
sLiterary, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering literary and artistic endeavors in Second Life and other virtual worlds.
About Second Life
Second Life is a free online virtual world imagined and created by its residents.
Neither the Metaverse Shakespeare Company nor sLiterary is affiliated with Linden Lab. Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab. No infringement is intended.
Malvolio: What employment have we here? Scene 5
This Act 2 poster is based on an unedited SL snapshot of Sir Toby Belch in the Metaverse Shakespeare Company’s design of the set for Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5: Olivia’s Garden.
SL Shakespeare Company Changes Its Name to Metaverse Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare, Second Life — Feb 22, 2010 — The SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC) today has finalized its name change process, and will now officially be known as the Metaverse Shakespeare Company (MSC).
“In its three years, the SL Shakespeare Company has accomplished its goal of spreading Shakespeare throughout SL via reviving his theatre and architecture on SL, and promoting affiliate events, from discussion groups to Renaissance music to non-SLSC sims,” said Ina Centaur, Artistic Director of the Metaverse Shakespeare Company. “Our new brand name better reflects our expanded mission to take Shakespeare to the metaverse—beyond just Second Life, but also OpenSim, WOW, Entropia, and other multiuser virtual worlds. Moreover, it frees up the general name of ‘SL Shakespeare’ for others to use, to continue to imbue SL with that aqua vitae of Shakespeare.”
Centaur expounds on the achievements of the Metaverse Shakespeare Company, beyond Shakespeare, “We have created the nascent industry of virtual theatre as a professional medium, and we have also put on experimental plays, contemporary pieces and original works. Many of the techniques and methods we have exposed and developed in virtual theatre, while implemented on SL, extend to any virtual world. We have evolved beyond Second Life, into the metaverse.”
The old domain of slshakespeare.com will be retained, but mshakespeare.com is now in use, “There will inevitably be some legacy items that will retain the old name. For example, old playbills and programmes will retain the old SL Shakespeare Company name, but Metaverse Shakespeare is our new brand.”
The Metaverse Shakespeare Company will maintain its relation with the Virtual Shakespeare Consortium, as curator of the most historically accurate virtual architecture relating to William Shakespeare. The Metaverse Shakespeare Company is a fiscally sponsored project of sLiterary, Inc.
The SL inworld group SL Shakespeare Company has been renamed the Metaverse Shakespeare Company.
For a full list of changes effective due to this name change, please see http://blog.mshakespeare.com/.
About the Metaverse Shakespeare Company
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.
Website: http://mshakespeare.com
Press Center: http://mshakespeare.com/press
Blog: http://blog.mshakespeare.com
Playbills: http://playbills.mshakespeare.com
Programmes: http://programmes.mshakespeare.com
About the Virtual Shakespeare Consortium
The Virtual Shakespeare Consortium (vSC) is a network of individuals and organizations dedicated to bringing Shakespeare and Shakespearean culture to the Internet and beyond.
About sLiterary
sLiterary, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering literary and artistic endeavors in Second Life and other virtual worlds.
About Second Life
Second Life is a free online virtual world imagined and created by its residents.
Neither the Metaverse Shakespeare Company nor sLiterary is affiliated with Linden Lab. Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab. No infringement is intended.
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M.O.A.I. doth sway my life…
Show opens 6 PM SLT (PST) on Tuesday, March 2.
Open-Ended run will be every Tuesdays @ 6 PM, and Sundays @ 1 PM. SLT “SL Time” — PST until March 14, after which, the time becomes PDT.
Stay tuned for updates, and yet more playbills. 
Drop by the SL Globe Theatre to grab your own sPoster, the Metaverse Shakespeare Company’s magical instantly-updating playbill that will always show our latest poster and give you message of our next event–with every click.
Below are PowerPoint slides used in the Ina Centaur SL Shakespeare Company’s presentation at SLCC (Second Life Convention), which occurred August 13-16 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco.
SL Shakespeare Company: The SLCC Introduction
View more presentations from Ina Centaur.
Most (if not all) of the fullscreen images used in the slides are available here.
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The Super Spoof plays @ 5 PM on April 1. ONE DAY ONLY. We are going to multi-parody a whole bunch of things from 2008, and see if they flow with Twelfth Night–that is, this is our “Twelfth Night – Popular Culture Analogues” Edition.
Everything summarized by the playbill above. Please feel free to link. This is a strictly unofficial fan production; our SPOOF-esque version of Twelfth Night just for April Fools Day 2009 – join us at the SL Globe Theatre at 5 PM PST (GMT-8).
Please note that we do have a L$100,000 koinup photography contest going on in conjunction with our open-ended run of Twelfth Night. We also have a special contest category JUST FOR today’s show. In this mini-contest for this show, there’s over L$5000 worth of cash and prizes up for grabs for your winning photo. Drop by the show. Take pictures. AND WIN!
Draft 1 of MultiParody 2009 Playscript is here.
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SLSC @ NAST and VWBPE
This is a fun weekend of conferences–with the SL Shakespeare Company @ both NAST and VWBPE!
SLSC@NAST
Sean Kelley (Kyler McCullough from SLSC MP2 Hamlet) brought his laptop to the Case Studies/Tech session at the NAST Conference in Chicago. With SL connected to the big screen in the ballroom, we did a sort of minimal-setup “mixed reality event,” where he flew around the Globe Theatre, gave me the mic — and I went ahead and did a lightning fast 10 minute presentation that both introduced the SLSC and also virtual worlds/virtual theatre (to an audience not familiar with the medium). Conference Slides are below:
Virtual Theatre and the SL Shakespeare Company
View more presentations from inacentaur.
This was followed by a live demo of Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 2 — played by Mokey Mokusei as Viola and Caliban Jigsaw as Captain. (You can see this scene along with the rest of Act 1 in our open-ended run of Twelfth Night, every Sundays @ 1 PM, and Tuesdays @ 6 PM at the Globe.):
SLSC @ VWBPE
The SLSC also has exhibits up at VWBPE (Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education). Here’s a quick shot of SLSC @ VWBPE 2009, and you can visit our exhibits for the duration of VWBPE inworld here:
