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” is a pointed, entertaining and moving examination of interdisciplinary conductivity at its most surprising.

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.

There are, at a minimum, and I checked, 18 bazillion adaptations of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." It's one of the most beloved and scrutinized texts in the whole of the English language. More actors than anyone can count -- strike that,

During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Hamlet tells the story.

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.

At this point, we’ve just about exhausted the possibilities of the “quarantine movie” following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but every now and then something comes along that proves there’s at least one new angle worth exploring.