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02/29/2008
Hamlet on Second Life
Did anybody else catch last night's performance of Act I, Scene I of Hamlet in Second Life? I don't regularly "play" Second Life (way too much to manage in Life #1), but since I'm writing a dissertation on Early Modern drama and new media, I had to check this performance out.
(Hat tip to Intute Arts and Humanities Blog for sending this one our way.)
Convergence, convergence, convergence: Second Life avatars on a virtual stage playing for an audience of actors in a fairly accurate-looking replica of the Globe theater with an interface that permits users to view the scenes from a variety of "movie camera" angles.
A fellow audience member brought up an interesting logistical issue: performances should have taken place during the day, as they did in the "first life" Globe. Without any "natural" lighting (and despite the full moon), the area was somewhat difficult to navigate.
They have a slew of performances going on this week and next in case you want to take your avatar out for some Shakespearin'.
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Hi Primrose Road, even though I blogged about the Second Life performance in Second Life in the Intute blog I couldn't make the performance myself - my laptop is kaput! Did you know Intute has reviewed many Internet resources relating to Shakespeare's Hamlet. If your comments allows URLs I post here an address for a saved search in Intute: Arts and Humanities
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/advancedsearch.pl?field=All&term1=hamlet&limit=0&subgateway=english&rank=score&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Go
BTW, was it not possible to force the Sunrise when viewing the performance at the Globe on Second Life?
Posted by: Alun Edwards | 03/04/2008