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ART Presents Two Gentlemen of Verona Sunday December 11th @ 2PM PST

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Yes, Shakespeare wrote soap operas. Julia will go to any means to snare Protheus who lusts for Silvia who loves Valentine but must marry Sir Thurio, because her dad, the Duke, says so.  Avatar Repertory Theater presents two performances of The Two Gentlemen of Verona

A scene from 

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

 

 

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  • Hypergrid address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
  • Put the hypergrid address in the Find box of World Map.  Click Find, TP
  • Find the walk-through teleporter to the ART theater parcel
  • Please come to Cookie II in advance of the show if you possibly can
  • so that you will already have visual assets cached in your viewer.
  • Please take a seat as soon as you arrive (right click on a seat, choose sit) 

 

Actors in order of appearance:  Iain McCracken, Sam Brautigan, Em Jannings, Pipsqueak Albatross, Madame Thespian, JadaBright Pond and Ada Radius. Adapted, produced and directed by Ada Radius and Em Jannings.

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Avatar Repertory Theater – Preparing a Role for Poetry

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by Ada Radius April 22, 2016 Avatar Repertory Theater actors are preparing to record a professional podcast of Robert Frost’s “North of Boston”, most of which are drama poems.  We performed a one hour version of it live, with virtual sets and avatars, at the lastVWBPE conference, and, now that we have some New England […]

Avatar Repertory Theater – Past, Present, Future

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by Ada Radius April 1, 2016 With the words that Shakespeare gave Miranda: “O brave new world that has such people in it!” When Iain McCracken (Sodovan Torok in Second Life) and I founded Avatar Repertory Theater in 2008, there were already several active live theater troupes in the grid. Talk of live theater in […]

“Land Impact” Values, SL vs OpenSim grids

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by Ada Radius March 5, 2016 Another reason why I love building in OpenSim! The so-called “Land Impact” values. Here is a comparison of land impact values for identical mesh model uploads, that I tested in OpenSim, then uploaded into Second Life. In both grids, 1 prim = 1 land impact value. For these low-poly […]

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ART to grace the stage at VWBPE in SL March 11th 7PM PDT

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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to join Avatar Repertory Theater for a dramatization of Robert Frost’s 1915 modernist masterpiece “NORTH OF BOSTON”, presented live in voice, Friday, March 11 at 7pm Pacific Time in Second Life at Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education sim.

From the hired hand who finally comes home, to a man who will never walk the New England woods again for his beloved native orchids, Robert Frost paints his metaphors into the lives of country people in a rich and formidable land.
Adapted for virtual theater by Judith Adele (Ada Radius)

ACTORS: Kayden Oconnell, JadaBright Pond, Sodovan Torok, Em Jannings and Ada Radius.
SETS by Ada Radius

Avatar Design for Virtual World Theater

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Avatar Design for Virtual World Theaterby Ada Radius Feb 2016Avatar design for virtual theater is aimed primarily toward expressiveness. It’s also important that our actors be able to change avatars and costumes quickly, attach props and use them easily, and move their avatars appropriately.Another important consideration is server and viewer resources. Every vertex and pixel […]

NMA Presents today, 12/5/15 @ 3:30 PST

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Avatar Repertory Theater goes to the 2015 Open Sim Community Conference! 3:30 to 3:50 pm, PST http://cc.opensimulator.org:8002/ Ada Radius will present the brief keynote speech, then some of the talented A.R.T. troupe will perform scenes from Shakespeare’s “A Midsommer Nights Dream”, where a band of the poor working people of Athens rehearse and perform a play […]