Performing Hamlet in GTA Online felt like going back in time to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre where ‘people would just throw apples at you, or there were prostitutes coming and going,’ say award-winning filmmakers

In 2021, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen were whiling away the Covid lockdowns in GTA Online when they had an idea: “Why not stage Hamlet inside the game?” They recorded hundreds of hours of in-game attempts to perform Shakespeare amid the chaos of GTA 5 and put together a feature-length documentary, Grand Theft Hamlet,…

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