Metaverse Shakespeare Company play, "One’s a Pawn of Time" by Mike Dedrian. The company then returned to "Twelfth Night" and staged the first act of the play starting in November, 2008. No full-length Shakespearean play has been produced due to funding issues. In December 2008 the company developed Shakespeare on Ice as part of the Second Life: On Winter Solstice 2008. Shakespeare on Ice was a 24-hour ongoing festival which revived characters and plots from previous SL Shakespeare Company productions, with the aim to entertain and educate. In February 2009 the company started work on "Twelfth Night", Act 1: The Open Ended Run,
Mechanical (character) the search party looking for Nick Bottom in the middle of the play. Many interpret Quince to be an author surrogate, representing William Shakespeare, albeit a comical version of himself. The character is named in the title of a Wallace Stevens poem, "Peter Quince at the Clavier", which is written in the first person as if spoken by Quince. The character also inspired the name of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart in the 1999 film "Galaxy Quest". Snug is a minor character in the play. He is a joiner from Athens who is hired by Peter Quince to play the part