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“Grand Theft Hamlet,” which debuts on Mubi Friday, is a documentary about how a group of friends brought "Hamlet" to life in Grand Theft Auto.

He is, indeed, Hamlet, virtually adorned in the sartorial echoes of the early 2010s that birthed “Grand Theft Auto V,” the 2013 game that’s become the second best-selling game of all time ...

The rich comedy of Grand Theft Hamlet drips mostly from the mix between the actors’ nonplussed dialogue over the absurd action and the game’s preposterous violence, uncanny glitchiness, and ...

"Grand Theft Hamlet" is a documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 lockdown staging Shakespeare's masterpiece on the mean streets of "Grand Theft Auto V ...

Grand Theft Hamlet is a great premise (Hamlet performed inside GTA), the sort of hook that grabs you, and you’d think it would provide an opportunity to talk about this strange time when people ...

It all adds up to a unique Hamlet, and I say that as a theater critic who's caught 37 before this, not one of them with flamethrowers, rocket launchers or flying DeLoreans. The film Grand Theft ...

The material of Hamlet itself is incredibly violent, something that the world of Grand Theft Auto Online provides in spades. Yet the camera of Grand Theft Hamlet never imbues the unpredictable ...

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. Updated January 21, 2025 at 16:01 PM ET ...

Grand Theft Hamlet is a surreal, funny poignant and meta meditation on putting on a play, video games and culture record of the Lockdown Published Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:47:09 -0500 by Adi Tantimedh | ...