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Grand Theft Hamlet
Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen — two actors unable to work due to lockdowns during COVID — spend their abundant free time playing "Grand Theft Auto Online." Inspiration strikes when they find an in-game outdoor auditorium and come up with the wild idea to stage a production of “Hamlet” inside the game. Told entirely through in-game footage, the challenge of putting together a stage production is complicated by the chaotic nature of an online gaming community where your lead actor can be killed by a hostile gamer mid-soliloquy.
Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen — two actors unable to work due to lockdowns during COVID — spend their abundant free time playing "Grand Theft Auto Online." Inspiration strikes when they find an in-game outdoor auditorium and come up with the wild idea to stage a production of “Hamlet” inside the game. Told entirely through in-game footage, the challenge of putting together a stage production is complicated by the chaotic nature of an online gaming community where your lead actor can be killed by a hostile gamer mid-soliloquy.
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