Broadway meets Second Life
If you want to know what’s hot in the Second Life (= SL) cultural scene, the answer is: live theatre in SL using avatars as actors.
The challenges are multifold, ranging from …
- the uncertainty whether the voice capability in the SL main grid will be available on time (or the need to alternatively use prerecorded voice),
- the question which stage to use,
- the task of finding competent set designers (here Tyg Jarrico for “The Thinkerer”),
- to the chore of locating animations which will make the avatars stand, move, and gesture like RL (= Real Life) actors.
The premiere date is set for “The Act Up Theatre Group” (TAUTG) which recently held auditions for “A Potpourri of One Acts”.
A cast of 20 SL actors and SL actresses has been obtained for two one act plays:
1. “One Little Indian Boi”, by Christo Larson and Upo Choche and directed by Upo Choche & Kimmi Jewell; and
2. “The Thinkerer”, by D.F. Dansereau and S.H. Evans (a new take on Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare”) and directed by Marin Mielziner (see picture).
Sadly, at the rehearsal I was invited to, the tortoise was missing so I can only show you Aesop (Athena Maeterlinck) …
and the hare (Pat Hartono) practicing their moves with director Marin Mielziner filling in for the tortoise (Bianca Arkin).
TAUTG’s first production is scheduled for June 30th, 2007, at 11:00am and 1:00pm PDT (SLT) during the Second Pride 2007 Festival. At least three further performances are planned.
If you have any questions or requests, please contact Kimmi Jewell in SL:
CU on June 30th at the Second Pride 2007 Festival!