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Monday, August 22, 2011

TIME TO STEP UP! BOOFest is Nigh!

In six weeks it will be time to gather round the crackling fire as the air begins to crisp with Autumn, and tell ghosty-ghouly tales.  We'll gather round the fires at Bran, where we held StoryFest in March.  Those interested in Presenting should contact Caledonia Skytower or Dubhna Rhiadra in world by notecard.  There will be 30 and 60 minute slots available (non concurrent this time).  As with StoryFest, there will be no stream available, and limited rezzing.  Just your voice in the dark . . . Mwwwwahahahahahahahaah!

Submissions to present will be accepted through the end of the Virtual Day on September 17th.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Gallery of Favorites - BARD A Success!

Thank You to Everyone!  It was a glorious weekend with us peaking at over 50 each performance, and a brief visit Sunday by the new LLabs Content Specialist for Arts & Culture who was AMAZED (and a fan of Shakespeare to boot)!  We equaled virtual ABBA for the amount of sim traffic created at Mango!  Mille Gracie!!!

What do you say, the metaverse and Linden Labs willing, that we meet on the Beach again next summer? . . . Thank you Bear and Crap for all the great photos (see previous posts to link to their galleries for the full meal deal of snaps!)
I loved the Peacock!  what did we name him?  Willy?

Gallery of Favorites - The Players (single Shots)

Bear Silvershade
Derry McMahon
Marian Dravovar
Ada Radius
Aoife Lorefield
Caledonia Skytower
Caliban Jigsaw
Corwyn Allen
Crap Mariner (and his amazing, delightful opening Witches scene from Macbeth!)
Dolgo Umarov
Klannex Northmead
Lailu Loon
Ludo Merit

I couldn't choose just one - though that was my initial intent . .  too many good shots from an amazing weekend.  Thanks Bear & Crap!

Gallery of Favorites - The Couples

Bear Silvershade & Derry McMahon with Much Ado About Nothing
Corwyn Allen & Ada Radius with  Hamlet
Corwyn Allen & Lailu Loon with As You Like It
Kayden Oconnell & Ada Radius with A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ada Radius & Kayden Oconnell with Antony & Cleopatra
Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower with Richard III
Caledonia Skytower & Kayden Oconnell with Macbeth
Marian Dragovar & Corwyn Allen with Tempest
Shandon Loring & Caledonia Skytower with Romeo & Juliet
All Photos by Bear Silvershade & Crap Mariner . . . see previous post for links...

REVISED Sunday Schedule for Bard

Mango Beach Festival Site

SUNDAY:
  • Corwyn Allen ~Lord Buckley transfigures The Bard - A Snippet
  • Ludo Merit ~ Selections of "Katharina" from TAMING OF THE SHREW
  • Ada Radius & Kayden O'Connell ~ A Selection from ANTONY & CLEOPATRA 
  • Klannex Northmead ~ Selection of Sonnets
  • Corwyn Allen & Lailu Loon ~ Act I, Scene 2 AS YOU LIKE IT
  • Kayden O'Connell & Caledonia Skytower ~ Act I, Scn 2  MACBETH 
  • Klannex Northmead ~ Selection of Sonnets
  • Ada Radius & Kayden O'Connell ~ A Selection from A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM  
  • Caliban Jigsaw ~"Glouster" from HENRY VI - Part 3; "Richard" from KING RICHARD THE THIRD
  • Kayden O'Connell & Caledonia Skytower ~ Act I, Scn 2 KING RICHARD THE THIRD
  • Caliban Jigsaw ~ "Antony" from JULIUS CAESAR,
  • Caledonia Skytower ~ Portia’s Court Speech from MERCHANT OF VENICE

Thursday, August 18, 2011

BARD Schedule . . . Preliminary

This is the first posting of this schedule . . . it is subject to review at the moment and will be revised over the next 24 to 36 hours.  Please check Friday, or Saturday morning to see if the words "Final" have been typed here. Or "as Final As Anything Is"

Mango Beach Festival Site

SATURDAY:
  • Crap Mariner ~ 100W Shakespeare-related Stories, The Three Witches speech from MACBETH as a monologue
  • Ada Radius & Corwyn Allen ~ A Selection from HAMLET 
  • Aoife Lorefield ~ Selections of "Viola" speeches from TWELFTH NIGHT 
  • Klannex Northmead ~ Selection of Sonnets
  • Corwyn Allen ~ Three selections from HENRY V
  • Caledonia Skytower ~ Three of the seven great speeches from HAMLET
  • Corwyn Allen & Marian Dragovar ~ Act I, Scene 2 THE TEMPEST
  • Dolgoruky "Dolgo" Umarov ~ Speeches from KING LEAR, Act III & Act IV
  • Klannex Northmead ~ Selection of Sonnets
  • Shandon Loring & Caledonia Skytower ~ Selections from ROMEO & JULIET
  • Bear Silvershade & Derry McMahon ~ Selected Beatrice & Benedict scenes from MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
  • Pipsqueak Albatross ~ Mark Antony's Eulogy speech from JULIUS CAESAR

SUNDAY:
  • Corwyn Allen ~Lord Buckley transfigures The Bard - A Snippet
  • Ada Radius & Kayden O'Connell ~ A Selection from ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
  • Corwyn Allen & Lailu Loon ~ Act I, Scene 2 AS YOU LIKE IT
  • Klannex Northmead ~ Selection of Sonnets
  • Ludo Merit ~ Selections of "Katharina" from TAMING OF THE SHREW
  • Kayden O'Connell & Caledonia Skytower ~ Act I, Scn 2  MACBETH 
  • Aoife Lorefield ~ Selections of "Viola" speeches from TWELFTH NIGHT 
  • Ada Radius & Kayden O'Connell ~ A Selection from A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM  
  • Klannex Northmead ~ Selection of Sonnets
  • Caliban Jigsaw ~"Glouster" from HENRY VI - Part 3; "Richard" from KING RICHARD THE THIRD
  • Kayden O'Connell & Caledonia Skytower ~ Act I, Scn 2 KING RICHARD THE THIRD
  • Caliban Jigsaw ~ "Antony" from JULIUS CAESAR,
  • Caledonia Skytower ~ Portia’s Court Speech from MERCHANT OF VENICE

Monday, August 15, 2011

BARD: The Players - a work in progress

ADA RADIUS is Co-founder of Avatar Repertory Theater in 2008, actor, graphics arts, soundtracks and music, script adaptations.  Partial SL theater bio here: http://www.avatarrepertorytheater.org/node/12








AOIFE LOREFIELD is part of the Seanchai Library Story Staff and loves the creativity and diversity of SL,  the wonderful friends she’s made, and enjoys meeting new ones!  See Picks for her work with intuitive languages like astrology, Tarot, dreams, and shamanic journeys.







CALEDONIA SKYTOWER loves language, music, and stories of all kinds, regardless of their source: theatre, poetry, literature, traditional telling. Story Staff of the Seanchai Library, Owner Stories Unlimited Subscriber Group and StoryFest Event Group, Arts & Literature Columnist for the SL Enquirer, Landscaper, Builder, "Artist."







CALIBAN JIGSAW is a company member of Avatar Repertory Theater. "I am interested in far too much - and have the capacity to comprehend.   Scattered be my world."


CORWYN ALLEN is a poet and actor. He is a member of the Avatar Repertory Theater troupe and the host of Poetry on the Halfshell, an open mic for poets, Thursdays at 4pm SLT.








CRAP MARINER. I am an ordinary average robot in the virtual world Second Life. You may think that the windup key in my back means that I am a toy or a doll, but I am a robot, not some plaything.  I am the Idiot In Chief of The Five Islands group of regions: Edloe, Harbour, Nowhereville, Piper Point, Watermoon Breeze, Corbenic, and Marylis.  Yes, that's seven islands. (We're not very good at math). My Clocktree Park is in the middle of Edloe island, and I read stories there every Wednesday at 5PM SLT.  http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/



DERRY MCMAHON & BEAR SILVERSHADE bring good literature to life at the Seanchai Library.  They present a wide range of stories from the classics to chick lit; including science fiction, fantasy and food stories.  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imagination%20Island/46/210/28







DOLGORUKY "DOLGO" UMAROV is a Journeyman actor for Avatar Repertory Theater, and other SL on line acting. "Bottom" in A Midsummer Night's Dream and "Caliban" in The Tempest. Also rumored to have done "Lear" twice in RL.Troupe dramaturge for A.R.T.







LAILU LOON wrote and directed I Gave At The Office and Oxymoronic Fusion on SL, and produced The Virtual Short Play Buffet with Avatar Repertory Theater. She has been a working playwright and director in RL as Z. Sharon Glantz, and looks forward to creating mixed reality theater. She is currently writing a graphic non-fiction book/tutorial (using real and virtual world graphics) on how to critique new work undergoing the development process.




LUDO MERIT. Amateur actor, playwright, folksinger, roleplayer, comedian.  I've performed in SL in a play one I wrote, three for the SL Shakespeare Company before its name change, others. My most recent triumph was a comedy gig at the disability affirmation conference, by my alt GrannyZo Pinion.







KAYDEN OCONNELL. Actor, Playwright, and Director for the Avatar Repertory Theater -- a company of artists from around the world dedicated to presenting live drama in the virtual worlds. Experienced voiceover artist and machinima actor.  A romantic, with a poet's heart. 







KLANNEX NORTHMEAD.  Pirate Neko Poet against Bad Things.  http://www.piratenekopoet.com/









MARIAN DRAGOVAR is among the “Friends of the Library” on the Seanchai Library Story Staff.  Marian's exhuberance for a great story and her sense of fun lends its contagious energy to all her sessions.  She is also well noted for having the cutest “Oh Poo!” ever spoken on the grid during her performance as Lucy Westenra in the Seanchai Library’s 2010 presentation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.





PIPSQUEAK ALBATROS
In RL I have performed on stage in dramatic and comedy roles in productions of Beyond Reasonable Doubt, Harvey, Guess who’s Coming to Dinner, Coming Up for Air and countless other plays and pantomimes. I also produced and co-directed a dinner theatre alfresco performance of the Taming of the Shrew.
I enjoy both dramatic and comedy acting roles. I have performed with the Metaverse Shakespeare Company, at Rockville University, in machinima, and am one of the newest members of the Avatar Repertory Theater.  http://www.avatarrepertorytheater.org/node/396

SHANDON LORING is the Chief Storyteller at the Seanchai Library.  Shandon Loring has travelled through many times and places and worlds, both virtual and real, and has recently come to the Second Life metaverse. He has collected many stories and tales and books, and would like to share his love of a good story with you, and to be your Seanchai for a time.