Struggling with pandemic-induced unemployment, two actors — Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen — attempt to stage a production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet within the ultra-violent digital ...
Spoiler warning: this piece explores some powerful moments in Grand Theft Hamlet that you might want to discover for yourself. Someone clever once referred to The Anatomy of Melancholy as a novel ...
Co-directed by the U.K.-based married couple Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, the former being a documentarian and the latter an actor, Grand Theft Hamlet came about because of the pandemic.
“It was a very appropriate environment for it,” says Pinny Grylls, one of the co-directors of Grand Theft Hamlet. The documentary follows two out-of-work actors, Sam Crane and Mark ...
The UK-based pair decided to put on a virtual production of Hamlet inside the online version of GTA. It would be the first time in the play's 400-year history the actors needed to be protected by ...