Cookie, Second Life – Since its founding in 2008, Avatar Repertory Theater has
presented live theater productions and presentations featuring live voice
acting in (c) Second Life. As they move into their seventh year on the
grid, bids are open on their first ever Shakespeare By Request
Auction. From now until November 7th, visitors to the
Company’s theater on Cookie can place bids on different members of the acting
company for the chance to choose a command performance by that performer from
the works of William Shakespeare. These performances will be presented at the
Company’s popular “Plays Around” scheduled for Friday, November 21st at
5:00 pm slt.
Panels
adorn the patio outside the Avatar Repertory Theater, with the image of each
actor or actress whose performance skills are up for bid. Once the
auction closes, the winning bidders will have less than a week to choose their
selection from the Shakespearean theatrical canon for that specific player to
present. Winners can be as specific or general as they wish in their
request:
· Simply indicating the play they want, and let
the actor find something from it.
· Choosing a specific scene from a specific play
· Requesting a favorite monologue that they’ve
always wanted to hear this actor perform.
The
setting will be simple, featuring Avatar Repertory Theater’s Shakespearean
style performance space, which is often obscured by a variety of sets and
settings for their biweekly ART Plays Around performances.
Bidding
is open to all Second Life Residents. Those who are less familiar with
the company’s players can sample the company’s work at Plays Around performances
scheduled for Friday, October 21st and November 7th,
also at 5:00 pm slt.
Among
the oldest artistic organizations of their kind, Avatar Repertory Theater’s
mission is to bring diverse, live theater to a widening range of people through
virtual performances, and to expand and challenge their own talents in the
craft of acting using this unique media. This has brought life to
everything from first-time realizations of works by living playwrights, to
major immersive productions such as their own adaptations of the classic Greek
Drama Oedipus Rex (“Oedipus”) and the works of Lewis Carroll
in "Alice in WonderSLand" and "Through the Looking
Glass."
Proceeds
from the Auction will help Avatar Repertory Theater continue to keep theater,
performed live and in voice, a vital virtual presence.
Avatar Repertory Theater is a program of New Media Arts, Inc which
has recently released its first Go Fund Me Video in support of their
mission to develop graphical, theatrical, literary, educational, library and
other fine and practical arts on the internet, in 3D graphical user interfaces,
multimedia, new generation computing devices, and other electronic and digital
communication media.
New
Media Arts, Inc is a registered 501 (c) (3) tax exempt nonprofit organization
in the United States, which can be reached at info@newmediaarts.org
Learn
more about Avatar Repertory Theater at avatarrepertorytheater.org and follow
them on Facebook and Google+.
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