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Theatre Schedule
Time	Title – Presenters • Room
Thur. Aug 13, 1:00p	Theatre in Second Life – Meghamora Woodward, Phorkyad Acropolis • Elizabethan C
	Over the past few years a number of diverse production companies have emerged in Second Life, presenting theatrical work with cast, crew and audience scattered across continents while still providing the immediate intimacy of live performance. We will talk about issues and challenges facing theatre arts in Second Life, discuss technical and philosophical aspects of telepresence, staging, and viewpoint, and open a discussion about what comes next in Second Life theatre as we learn how to harness the intrinsic power of the new medium and tell stories of our new society. This panel will include an excerpt from Stephen Schrum’s digital adaptation of his play Aliens! 3 Miles, Turn Left, to be staged in Second Life in the summer of 2009.
Thur. Aug 13 3:00p	Workshop: Adapting Live Performance to SL – Lailu Loon • Elizabethan C
	This hands-on workshop offers participants to experiment in adapting short scenes/plays to SL (participants are welcome to bring their own scenes). Somewhere between producing live theater, films and games, the process of virtual performance requires new ways of looking at presentation possibilities.
Sat. Aug 15, 3:30p	Performance of I Gave At The Office – Led by Lailu Loon • Grand Ballroom
	An original live farce combining virtual performers (Rowan Shamroy, Marin Mielziner, Moxy Barracuda, Thungergas Menges) and physically present performers (CallieDel Boa, Lauren Weyland, Candi Zephaniah) on SL and the internet (www.ideajuice.com). Rekka Berchot and OhMy Shalala designed the sets and props. More info at www.thesanitypatrol.com/Theater/virtual.htm.

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Started by Meghan Moran. Last reply by ina centaur Aug 12, 2009.

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Comment by Z. Sharon Glantz on August 5, 2009 at 4:06pm: Sounds terrific, Stephen, even though you're obviously doing the work of the devil. And amen to keeping drama onstage -- that's why I started writing plays.

Comment by Stephen Schrum on August 5, 2009 at 4:14pm: My RL theatre colleagues don't get virtual theatre, even though we started doing it in MOOs back in the 90s...last century.

Comment by Stephen Schrum on August 5, 2009 at 4:15pm: But let's ask the most important question of Ina Centaur:

Is it AI-nah, EE-nah, INNah? We must have a single pronunciation to agree upon!

Comment by ina centaur on August 6, 2009 at 12:14am: On temporality and related issues that RL theatre types might reject SL theatre - I think that the main argument of SL theatre not being capable of "transmitting a meaning interactively" to a live audience is both true and false - I think we're all aware of the limitations of SL (even assuming lag doesn't ruin the show), but even though it'd be less intuitive for audience-actor to interact naturally, meaning is transmitted with every live performance. (But, unless you're attending a temporality conference, you don't usually even get that far, typical haters are the types who can't see how SL isn't exactly like watching TV.)

Comment by ina centaur on August 6, 2009 at 12:17am: But, speaking of Blended Reality performances, have you guys seen the Gorillaz performance a while back? They had virtual characters projected onto "freeform" holograms for an RL rock concert.

Further details in this old thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/slcc-interactive/browse_thread/thread/826fd9c717c46fcd/de07ebbb69a8e47a

Comment by ina centaur on August 6, 2009 at 12:21am: As for my virtual theatre presentations @ SLCC -
I will cover the technologies we have created and used in our productions, meticulous reconstructions of historic theatres. We will also be showing a brief demo of a performance - it'd be "minimally" mixed reality, in the sense that the SL actors would somehow be susceptible to RL feedback @ SLCC. It will be geared more for the SL-familiar audience than our NAST presentation.

Comment by ina centaur on August 6, 2009 at 12:21am: As for *the name*... Ina varies depending on which part of the world you're coming from - just like how "Stephen" can be "stEE - ven" or "steph - EN" or even "step - HEN" (heard that from a Canadian once, who pronounced "omega" "oh - mah - ga") ;-)

Comment by Stephen Schrum on August 10, 2009 at 1:28pm: Had a good presentation at my theatre conference o Blended Reality performance. Was told in Q&A that SL is dying. Good to know. He had some kind words for other "obsolete" and "dying" technologies. What would we have done without him??? (***Expletive/derogatory term for rectal area deleted***)

Comment by Z. Sharon Glantz on August 10, 2009 at 2:02pm: I admit I'm kinda old, but dying? (I take this guy's SL comment personally). What did you tell him?

Comment by Stephen Schrum on August 10, 2009 at 7:45pm: I just nodded politely and waited for his quiet rant to finish so someone else with a REAL question could get a word in edgewise.

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