PHOENIX SCRATCH

PHOENIX SCRATCH IN SECOND LIFE®

What’s so special about theatre in an age dominated by the TV? Who’s making live performance now? Why do they bother? And what’s in it for the audience?

Eleven Phoenix Scratch nights over the past two years have seen dozens of artists test and discuss new performance ideas with audiences, resulting in four commissions from Andrea Turner, Search Party, Low Profile and Neil Callaghan/Simone Kenyon.

Now Phoenix Scratch is back. And over the next year or so it will be based in Second Life.

What is Second Life? It's a 3D online digital world imagined and created by its 10 million residents. Many big businesses now have islands there, Suzanne Vega's played live there, you can book holidays through tour operators, and Sweden has even opened an embassy there.

Over the coming year, there will be four new commissioned works, a series of events with open-calls for artists to try out new performance experiments, and a day-long symposium in autumn 2008. See below for details of the first commission and the second Scratch night in Second Life.

Drifter Rhode (a.k.a. Stephen Hodge)

Theatre, Dance & Live Art Programmer / Phoenix Scratch Producer

Phoenix Scratch is supported by Arts Council England (Lottery Funded).

Second Life® and its creator Linden Lab® are registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc.

For further information about Scratch events visit 2NDLIVE.ORG/SCRATCH.HTML