Irish theatre playwright now stands outside the gallery entrance. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. A sea change in the history of the Irish theatre came with the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn. This was followed by the Irish National Theatre Society, later to become the Abbey Theatre. The history of this theatre is well documented, and its importance can be seen from the list of writers whose plays were first performed here in the early days of the 20th century. These included
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)