How do you stage a Shakespeare play in the middle of a global pandemic? British actor Sam Crane wasn't sure, but he knew he was tired of looking at Zoom screens. His determination to find a ...
The British acting company, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS), will present William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, “Hamlet” at Hope College on Friday, Jan. 31, and Saturday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in ...
A new documentary transforms the ultraviolent world of “GTA Online” into an absurd and profound Shakespearean stage.
The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community ...
It’s only January, but the eccentric, ambitious documentary Grand Theft Hamlet will surely end up as one of 2025’s most interesting movies. During England’s second lockdown in response to the COVID-19 ...
How three out-of-work friends spent COVID staging a tragedy inside a comedy in GTA Online — and made a doc about it ...
Luke Thallon takes on his first RSC role as Hamlet, while BAFTA Award winner Jared Harris returns to the RSC as Claudius, ...
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 ...
Faced with COVID lockdown, two out-of-work actors reach for Shakespeare in an experimental documentary that creates art on ...
During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto.
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.
His creative process — from casting actors whose faces he never saw to having his avatar shot by internet strangers during rehearsals — is the subject of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” a ...