Hamlet, Grand Theft and Shakespeare

Grand Theft Hamlet’s creators put Shakespeare in GTA to put chaos back into Shakespeare
How three out-of-work friends spent COVID staging a tragedy inside a comedy in GTA Online — and made a doc about it
The True Story Behind Grand Theft Hamlet
The documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, directed by Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls, tells the incredible true story of how a group of actors banded together to perform Hamlet in the world of Grand Theft Auto Online.
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ review: 'Grand Theft Auto' meets Shakespeare in hilarious, moving doc
However, Grand Theft Hamlet explores this unique combination of past and present while revealing new and unexpected narrative layers at every turn. The animated documentary follows two actors’ ill-advised attempts to stage a full-length production of Hamlet in a video game world;
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ Stages Shakespeare in a Land of Shootouts
During a pandemic lockdown, out-of-work actors turned to the video game Grand Theft Auto Online, where a tortured soliloquy may be interrupted by a rocket launcher.
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ Review: There’s Something Rousing in the State of San Andreas
A new documentary transforms the ultraviolent world of “GTA Online” into an absurd and profound Shakespearean stage.
Grand Theft Hamlet
Grand Theft Hamlet” is a pointed, entertaining and moving examination of interdisciplinary conductivity at its most surprising.
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’: The (Game) Play’s the Thing
The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community and connection.
Review: Goodnight, sweet Player One, as the Bard comes to gaming in ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’
Faced with COVID lockdown, two out-of-work actors reach for Shakespeare in an experimental documentary that creates art on the mean streets of GTA's Los Santos.
Goodnight, sweet Player One: Bard goes gaming in 'Grand Theft Hamlet'
To be an artist, or not to be? That is the question of "Grand Theft Hamlet," a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out ...
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“There Was a Fair Amount of Us All Killing Each Other”: Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls on Grand Theft Hamlet
Grand Theft Hamlet opens today in theaters from MUBI. Filmmaker: What was your initial pitch to the BFI Doc Society, which ...