George Bernard Shaw provoke, although it was shown at the city's Royal Theatre in November 1907. Shaw later wrote that William Butler Yeats, who had requested the play, "got rather more than he bargained for... It was uncongenial to the whole spirit of the neo-Gaelic movement, which is bent on creating a new Ireland after its own ideal, whereas my play is a very uncompromising presentment of the real old Ireland." Nonetheless, Shaw and Yeats were close friends; Yeats and Lady Gregory tried unsuccessfully to persuade Shaw to take up the vacant co-directorship of the Abbey Theatre after J. M. Synge's death in
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)