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 ...
A virtual avatar selfie featuring Grand Theft Hamlet's director, Pinny Grylls, alongside co-star writers and directors Sam Crane (left) and Mark Oosterveen (right) How do you keep Shakespeare ...
Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls' documentary about making virtual art in a pandemic won the Documentary Jury Prize at SXSW 2024. How do you stage a Shakespeare play in the middle of a global pandemic?
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.