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In act three we are treated to a celestial delight with an intergalactic battle between good and evil! Becky describes, “The massive aerial battle up there (points up at the planets) will be a big battle involving nine avatars over about five minutes. You might notice that there are fewer planets than we know of, but that’s because in Milton’s time, they only knew of those up there.” The battle will be fought literally over the audience for maximum entertainment. Proceeding through the acts we see the sad and harsh life of Adam and Eve. The small hovel they live in, the squabbles and trials, all coming to the entrance of the Angel Michael, to show Adam visions of what is to come. They have designed sets for three visions, one of which is the story of Noah’s Ark, complete with an immense ship and animals! Becky describes, “So then what we see is Noah as he talks to God. God says to build an ark, get the animals, etc. Noah does and that’s one vision. We will be playing animals too! This whole set, everything will be on ground level when we’re ready. So what we’ll then do is when the flood hits, raise the water level up to the audience’s necks so they really feel in it!” We proceed through each scene; Becky and Harvey show me what can only be described as jaw dropping details of painstakingly designed sets. We discuss the acute eye to detail they use to pick out each item they use on the sets. Becky describes
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how they design them, “We have a vision of what we need to tell the story and we source 99% of what we include in sets from Second Life creators; so we do a lot of shopping! Then we’ll modify lots of it. For example Noah’s ark is a Viking long ship stretched even bigger. Adam and Eve’s hovel is a shed from POST, and that rug in there is a Gorean Rug from Dutchie. Whatever fits the part as long as it’s high quality, we’ll use it. We’re hoping that if the production becomes very well known we’ll have more sponsorship support.” From a design perspective this production reaches far and wide through all challenges present in design, yet the Basilique Performing Arts Company strives for originality, beauty, and functionality in their efforts. Finally, as in true Second Life spirit, no event would be complete without a cause and The Basilique is no exception. Their chosen cause is the World Wildlife Fund where they have adopted a baby mountain gorilla in Rwanda named Iohoho. 50% of all proceeds from the play will be given to the WWF. The theater company has many great ways to advertise for anyone interested in sponsorship, such as syndicated blog post amongst many other benefits. Tickets are $1,000L available for advanced sale on marketplace or $1,500L at the door. For any information, please contact Canary Beck or crabsticks Resident in world.
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