The Silver Tassie (play) play's study of Harry’s loss of many of his life’s hopes during and after the war, marks it as unusual. In 1928, W. B. Yeats rejected the play for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It premièred at the Apollo Theatre in the West End of London on 11 October 1929. It was directed by Raymond Massey and starred Charles Laughton and Barry Fitzgerald. The set design for act two was by Augustus John. It ran for twenty-six performances. George Bernard Shaw and Lady Gregory were both great admirers of the production. Its Irish première was on 12 August 1935 at
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)