Second Life Shakespeare

Last week, when I wrote about the auditions for a production of Romeo & Juliet that would take place in an online game, someone asked me if it was on Second Life. Well, now I see that the phenomenon exists there too. Hopefully without the actual suicides…

The SL Shakespeare Company is Second Life’s premier professional
theatre production troupe. According to artistic director Ina Centaur,
“Since the beginning, we have been dedicated to creating and bringing
serious theatre to Second Life. We hope to continue doing so by
reaching out to and connecting the thespians around the world.” Of
note from 2008, its inaugural year, the Company performed SL’s first
historically accurate Elizabethan production of Hamlet
The Secondlife Newspaper M.A.C.E.: Auditions for the SL Shakespeare Company

They are auditioning voice actors, because they want the Second Life version to be visual and auditory. The actors who are chosen will have wardrobe provided, just like a real-world production, which is a big deal when 3D modelling is a skill that is usually highly paid.

Auditions for “Twelfth Night: Act 1″ (why aren’t they doing the whole play?) will be at 1pm on January 24th at the SL Shakespeare Company… in Second Life, of course.