In February, they did the opening of «Hamlet»: Act I, Scene 1. "The Mousetrap" is Act III, Scene 2. Zarf laughs and says the idea of doing the play within the play was a neat one. ”And a fun one too: Kind of reflective of the nature of SL, where we’re all in a way playing the part of our avatar. But in the end, it’s a very important scene in the show, and that’s the biggest reason for us choosing it.” Zarf says they can have many performances where not two are the same. ”Playing in SL is not as nerve racking as in RL, but it’s more problematic. There are so many small things to deal with: Turning on your mic, getting your character in the right costume, finding the right gestures, moving around, saying your lines, and compensating for the half a second of voice lag,” he said. He tells about the last performance of the February show, where he had to step in for a character. ”For some reason, both I and a couple of others crashed a couple of times, and that hadn’t happened up until then. So we were improvising to the left and right, trying to figure out what to do when a character missed its entrance because of a crash. Fun stuff,” Zarf laughed. Not surprisingly, he counts lag as the greatest challenge when |
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