Grand Theft Hamlet review: some actors stage a production of Hamlet inside the world of Grand Theft Auto and find power in the online community.

Faced with COVID lockdown, two out-of-work actors reach for Shakespeare in an experimental documentary that creates art on ...

Staging the existential story in the midst of a pandemic when the future of live theater is uncertain is a compelling hook, ...

The film won the Documentary Jury Award at SXSW 2024 ... "It's as challenging as it would have been when Shakespeare was putting on a new production at the Globe," Grylls said.

The animated documentary follows two actors’ ill ... movie’s pandemic premise and its subjects ruminating on one of Shakespeare’s heaviest texts, Grand Theft Hamlet echoes the idea of ...

he countered that "people are violent in Shakespeare. It's brutal. Like in Hamlet, everyone dies. It's perfect." Sam's wife, Pinny Grylls, is a documentary filmmaker. She started recording everything ...

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So begins the hilarious and unexpectedly poignant “Grand Theft Hamlet,” a documentary — shot entirely within the virtual world of “Grand Theft Auto Online” — that returns Shakespeare ...

“I wonder if you could actually stage something here,” Crane’s avatar muses at the start of the documentary “Grand ... a staging of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” entirely within the ...

The innovative installation promises to be a ‘collaboration between creative entities: living, dead, organic and computational’ ...

Or is it? As one participant points out, there’s a lot of death and dying and bad behavior in Shakespeare. “Grand Theft Hamlet” (in theaters) is a documentary directed by Sam Crane and Pinny ...