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Terminator the Second is the sole production of a Nashville-based theater troupe named Husky Jackal Theater. The group was formed in 2010, and according to their website, members spent more than a year composing and revising the script. The length of the composition process is due to the fascinating approach Husky Jackal took to adapting Terminator 2. Rather than simply revising the film script to Elizabethan language, the composers considered the folios of Shakespeare in their entirety, and selected individual lines and phrases from plays and poems in order to recreate the story of the 1992 film, only changing nouns, pronouns, and verb tenses.
With the script assembled, the group launched a Kickstarter campaign in April of 2011 with a goal of $3,000, a goal that was reached and breached, aided by the fervor of fandom. The campaign gained notoriety, being covered by the SyFy Channel, Gawker, and Mental Floss, and due to this exposure, 241 backers helped Husky Jackal raise just over $10,000.  The production ran for three nights in October 2011 and had the Nashville arts scene abuzz with positive reviews. Since that initial run, Husky Jackal has yet to compose any new productions, but Terminator the Second continues to see marginal circulation. Husky Jackal recorded the initial performances of Terminator the Second and edited them for digital distribution, resulting in a series of screenings in Nashville in 2013; furthermore, Bootless Stageworks—a Wilmington, Delaware theater company—put on the play in 2014. And now, to canonize the production as high drama, Terminator the Second finds its way into the academy.

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