In Second Life, the SLShakespeare company will be performing Act1 Scene1 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the SLGlobe on Sliterary from this Thursday. If you have the Second Life software installed, and an avatar, (all freely available) you can visit the Globe Theatre on Second Life by clicking on the ‘SURL’ http://slurl.com/secondlife/sLiterary/27/32/21/
From Joff Fassnacht – one of the performers – (aka Joff Chafer, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Performing Arts Department, School of Art and Design, Coventry University):
This is a live performance, no bots, so anything can , and quite possibly will, happen. It is free and seating is on a first come first served basis but the theatre can in theory hold up to 300 (though if that doesn’t crash the system nothing will.)
Please note times are SLT so add 8 hours for UK times, yes the first performance is 2am Thursday night.
SLSC Thursday, Feb 28: 6 PM
Fri, Feb 29: 3 PM
Sat, Mar 1: 11 AM
Sun, Mar 2: 1 PM
Mon, Mar 3: 11 AM
Tues, Mar 4: 6 PM
Weds, Mar 5: —
Thurs, Mar 6: 3 PM
Fri, Mar 7: 1 PM
Sat, Mar 8: 6 PM
Sun, Mar 9: 3 PM
So that’s 2am Thursday night/Friday morning on Sliterary!
On the JISCmail Second Life list there are people discussing how to video this performance! Watch this space…
Tags: Arts Event, Literature Linguistics Classics, virtual worlds
