Staging the existential story in the midst of a pandemic when the future of live theater is uncertain is a compelling hook, ...

The documentary chronicles the staging ofHamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online, using the characters as actors and the violent virtual city of Los Santos as an extended stage.

Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls' Grand Theft Hamlet is a funny and charming use of its titular game, even if it ultimately feels lacking in its pacing.

There are plenty of interesting parallels: The GTA world reflects Hamlet's own violent surroundings; the isolation of lockdown, his increasingly melancholy state. But the movie doesn't force the ...

“Hamlet” has been performed in just about every ... in the middle of a Blockbuster Video in Michael Almereyda’s film from 2000 is proof enough of that. But it’s safe to say that this ...

Grand Theft Hamlet is a truly unique lockdown film. Shot mostly in early 2021, as London was undergoing its third major COVID lockdown, Grand Theft Hamlet traces the evolution of its central ...

A few years back, I had a very strange dream. I dreamed that I was the producer and director of an animated film. The film was of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as enacted by Donald Duck and other ...

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. Grand Theft Hamlet tells the story of the duo’s one-of-a-kind production ...

When the film focusses on the ups and downs of Sai Pallavi-Naga Chaitanya relationship, it sails quite smoothly, but the ...