Shiv on Learning

The class includes three Europeans, a Korean, two Saudi women, an Israeli journalist, a Brazilian student, a refugee from Gaza and a Russian economist. They meet at modern theatre, which they have to themselves. Tonight, they are doing improvisations with their teacher as a way of practising their English.

Half the class has never left their countries of residence. One of them rarely speaks to men outside her family and another is confined to bed by a debilitating disease. Yet they are speaking and moving and interacting in real time, in the virtual world of Second Life ….