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.

The real date you’ve all been waiting for — We will be opening Twelfth Night, Act 3 on Tuesday December 7 at 6 PM - for a total of five shows this Winter Preview Season, every Tuesdays @ 6 PM and Sundays @ 1 PM after opening.

Playbill enclosed!
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Those who purchased tickets for November will be able to use them for in December, and in our upcoming productions of Acts 4/5 in 2011!

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Stay tuned for an extra this season — mShakespeare MoCap Theatre and Shakespeare on Ice!

Ah, funding, politics, intrigue, and RL….

It’s the first in our four years on SL, but it looks like we will have to delay the opening of our show yet again. Stay tuned as we announce details.

Booty for our booby. Meanwhile, Here’s a a pair of Malvolio’s Cross-Gartered Yellow Stockings for everyone. Join the Metaverse Shakespeare Company group on SL to grab your copy!

mShakespeare performs its final Twelfth Night, Act 2 Open Ended Run performance 1 PM on Sunday April 18…

Come catch all this stuff on-stage before it’s too late:

OEP2: Twelfth Night, Act 2 - 2010 Open Ended Run (pdf 4 MB) or Issuu

Check out the mShakespeare/SL Shakespeare programme archive for yet more programme booklets from this and other productions!

mShakespeare April Fools Super Spoof 2010 parodizes in a wild *totally* unofficial MultiParody some of the memorable pop culture icons in 2009, while analogizing them to characters from the Metaverse Shakespeare Company’s current open-ended run of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act 2.

Scene 1: Edward is Jacob afore Illyria… with Antonio played by Bella Swan as “Bella Antonio” and Sebastian played by Edward Cullen as “Edward Sebastian” — who confuses Bella by admitting his name wasn’t Rodorigo or Edward, but is actually Jacob, and then leaves her to wander like a lost vampire in Illyria. In this New Moon prologue spin-off, Bella goes after him!
Scene 2: AVATAR @ Olivia’s… with Malvolio played by the Na’vi Neytiri and Viola, the envoy, played by Jake Sully… in SL 3D!!! zOMG!™
Scene 3: Southpark Shakespeare Setup… with Sir Toby Belch played by Stan Marsh as “Sir Toby Stan”; Feste played by Butters Stotch as “Feste Butters”; Maria played by Shelley Marsh as “Shelley Maria”; Malvolio played by Eric Cartman as “Cartman Malvolio”; and Sir Andrew Aguecheek played by Kenny McCormick as “Sir Kenny Andrew”
Scene 4: New Moon in Bella’s Court… with Orsino played by Bella as, who has somehow managed to become duke of Illyria in her ill-begotten pursuit of the merely extravagant Edward… or, perchance, Viola played by Edward as “Edola”
Scene 5: Southpark Shakespearean Idol… with cast as in Scene 3, but this time, our trout farts and swears and lapses from modern vernacular into Shakespearean when he steps into light of the haunted Shakespearean Idol platform…

Free show; seating is first come first to squat.
Be there early! Thursday, April 1 @ 5 PM at the SL Globe Theatre

P.S. The Na’vi Neytiri, Human Jake Sully, and all Southpark avatars shown in the poster above will be given away for free at the event! Come for the show, go home with memorable freebies!

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.

See the full PR here for further details.

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.

This Act 2 poster is based on an unedited SL snapshot of Feste the Fool in the Metaverse Shakespeare Company’s design of the set for Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4: Orsino’s Court - Mezzanine.