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Avatar Repertory Theater – Preparing a Role for Poetry

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 […]

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Avatar Repertory Theater – Past, Present, Future

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 […]

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“Land Impact” Values, SL vs OpenSim grids

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 […]

Avatar Design for Virtual World Theater

see more at www.avatarrepertorytheater.org Avatar Design for Virtual World Theater by Ada Radius Feb 2016 Avatar 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 […]

Avatar Repertory Theater is looking for a few good voices!

Our upcoming shows scheduled so far this year: Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona” in February, Taming of the Shrew and Titus Andronicus TBA, in OpenSim, at our Cookie II world at the Kitely grid. We’ll also be starting a virtual world theater workshop series at our Cookie II world on the Kitely grid in a […]

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

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 […]

NMA Presents today, 11/15/15 @ 2PM PST

Sunday November 15 from 2 to 3 PM Pacific: Avatar Repertory Theater presents, at AVATARFEST: “The Hamlet Thing,” an abbreviated but remarkably complete stroll through Elsinore, featuring all your favorites: the moody Prince, the barbarous Uncle, the lusty mum,  the rejected GF and her bombastic Dad. Murder, incest, revenge. Don’t miss it! Hypergrid address: avatarfest.net:6000 Put […]

A Night at the Virtual Theater

We had ourselves a time last night, we did. It started rough. I get to the theater an hour before curtain, Sam is there, we’re rezzing our avatars and costumes into the sim, I’m checking the set. Then I try to use my microphone. Nothin. I didn’t panic, at first. I hear Sam fine, he […]

Avatar Repertory Theater Presents Iain McCracken’s “Throw Back the Rocket Man” @ 5PM PDT

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/216/215/24 Sets, costumes and props by Aley, adapted by Judith Adele (Ada Radius iSL). “You have one thing to do. Make that monster leave, and make him take his abomination with him.” By special permission of the author, our own Iain McCracken (Sodovan Torok iSL) we have adapted his hard sci-fi novella from the collection […]