The first abbreviated performance was of a scene from Hamlet in February 2008 under the guidance of Ina Centaur, the company’s Visual Director.

To view a live production, a Second Life avatar stands on the floor or sits in a gallery seat.

In June 2008 the company took a break from Hamlet and started to work on a staged reading (not performance) of Twelfth Night.

Ina Centaur closed with this statement "The Shakespeare Primtings sLiterary and Skin City sims will go down on Oct 29 or thereabouts.

The process in which sims are deactivated is not usually punctual – we aren’t sure exactly when the executioners would finally pull the plug, but when they do, it will be the end of our Second Life."

[11] Avatars in Second Life move from place-to-place in real time under human control, however body poses and facial expressions are limited to pre-defined animations and scripts.

Metaverse Shakespeare Company productions augments this, including two ways: by creating new animations, and with post-production lip sync.

[12] In the Second Life virtual world, one has the ability to either watch events from a static position, or to move the view to a place that is away from one’s avatar.

Her account in Second Life was already locked and though Primting and Shakespeare managed to cover their tier costs through donations, it was unlikely that The Globe Theatre would be saved.