Millions of Us Presents: One Night of Live Theatre
Top 10 Coolest things about the first live performance play in Second Life.
From my point of view, three hours after the event
10. The audience was quiet!
9. Scene/Costume changes were done with a large curtain that came down over the entire stage.
8. The set design has this retro-murder look to it.
7. There is a mention of gopher killing.
6. This play was put together in less than one month.
5. The previous Shakespeare props weren’t off the stage for final rehearsal until two days before.
4. When we opened up the sim, Millions of Us, it filled over capacity within minutes.
3. The crowd insisted on TWO encores!
2. You could watch the play from anywhere! Watch it from the actors point of view!
1. This may be the first live play, but from today’s performance, it won’t be the last.
-Chris
August 25th, 2006 at 6:45 am
In this week of debate over “firsts”, I’m guessing we’ll find this wasn’t actually the first time someone’s done a play in SL. That said, it sure was cool. . . . .Can’t wait to see where it goes next.
August 27th, 2006 at 12:24 am
When I passed a flier to Prokofy Neva I was hit with a fascinating exchange about the history of theatre inside TSO, so it will be great to hear more from someone who has seen scenes from Waiting for Godot inside a virtual world already! And perhaps it will give us all a ton more ideas on where it is headed next.
August 27th, 2006 at 1:26 am
Great post by Prokofy Neva, here, covering a lot of what I mentioned above.
August 27th, 2006 at 2:08 am
here being here: http://www.3pointd.com/20060825/cracking-walnuts-with-refrigerators/#comment-8703
August 27th, 2006 at 7:21 am
Here’s a review I did for Slatenight - focussing on the actual play and not so much the mechanics ot technicalities:
http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=40