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.

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.

In 2021, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen were whiling away the Covid lockdowns in GTA Online when they had an idea: "Why not stage Hamlet inside the game?" They recorded hundreds of hours of ...

The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game ... plotting a new production of “Hamlet.” The stage is large and bare, set in a landscape that resembles Southern ...