Grand Theft Hamlet
Though the title almost does all the explaining you’ll ever need, to spell it out in a full sentence Grand Theft Hamlet is an attempt to stage the Shakespeare play Hamlet inside the online version of Grand Theft Auto. The background. It’s the third Covid lockdown in the UK and husband and wife Sam Crane, a theatre director, and Pinny Grylls, a documentary maker, are suddenly workless and at home cooling their heels. He’s a bit of a console jockey. She isn’t. Inspired by a comment from their kids about a YouTube gamer going by Dream (31.9 million subscribers as I type) who’s been staging performances inside Minecraft, they wonder if they can … Read more