Exiles (play) Exiles (play) Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of "The Dead", the final short story in Joyce's story collection "Dubliners". The play was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre. In terms of both its critical and popular reception, "Exiles" has proven the least successful of all of Joyce's published works. In making his case for the defence of the play, Padraic Colum conceded: "...critics have recorded their feeling that ["Exiles"] has not
Arts in Second Life by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 2009, the TLE theater company began producing full-length plays in Second Life, starting with "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde in February, and followed by "Candida" by George Bernard Shaw in April. In 2008 The Avatar Repertory Theater company was set up. This is another Theatre company that works within SL. In 2009 the Department of Drama at the University of Calgary mounted four short productions in the New Media Consortium theater as part of a class in performance in non-traditional spaces. These plays were (a) "Guppies" (by Clem Martini) in March (b)