Second Life novelist and filmmaker Huckleberry Hax has written a wonderfully thoughtful review of Paradise Lost The Movie. Below are some highlights, read the full review here.
I think it’s over a year now since the last performance of ‘Paradise Lost’ at Basilique. Put together by Canary Beck and Harvey Crabsticks, this vastly ambitious show depicted the expulsion from Eden of Adam and Eve according to Milton’s epic twelve book poem. As a piece of Second Life live entertainment, it built on the pair’s previous presentation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, a smaller but still extremely innovative production that pushed the boundaries of what was achievable in virtual theatre. If I had to sum up in a single word what distinguished these shows from the performances I’d seen previously in SL it would be this: ‘movement’. To the prospective producer aiming to bring theatre to the metaverse, the obvious benefits of this medium might be scenery and voice. You can create sets as elaborate as your imagination (and your prim allowance) permits in SL, and you can…
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