The Hamnet Players

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The Hamnet Players is a virtual theater group, founded in 1993 by Stuart Harris, an English writer living in San Diego, California. There have been six Hamnet Players productions, beginning in 1993 with a virtual theatre performance using Internet Relay Chat (IRC), based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.^[1] The show "Hamnet" is cited as the first-ever experiment with virtual theater.^[2]