Tell Your Avatar To Turn Off His Mobile. This Is Theatre!

Performing on Second Life, the Sawston Players are “following in the footsteps of comedian Jimmy Carr (who was the first to do an interactive internet gig) by presenting the first online musical. I can’t disagree with composer and musical director Graham Brown, who says it’s a neat way to drum up a bit of publicity in the run-up to the Fringe. But can the performance be described as theatre in any other sense?” And “could it actually damage its real-world equivalent?”