“Grand Theft Hamlet is too busy pitting high art against low art to take advantage of the communal power shared by games and theater.” That’s exactly the premise of Grand Theft ...

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. Grand Theft Hamlet tells the story of the duo’s one-of-a-kind production, showing ...

The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community and connection. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Exclusive: The Royal Shakespeare Company has released first-look images from the rehearsal room for its forthcoming production of Hamlet, directed by Rupert Goold. Also in the cast are Chase Brown as ...

To be an artist, or not to be? That is the question of “Grand Theft Hamlet,” a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 ...

“We were buggered,” Crane’s wife, filmmaker Pinny Grylls, who co-directed Grand Theft Hamlet with Crane, told Polygon. There was nothing to be done about the situation except play video game ...

Instead, they commissioned a report from an independent embalmer, seen by Sky News, which points the finger of blame at the second funeral director. The second funeral director could not be ...

This perspective has also allowed Mr Conneely to become one of the country's leading embalmers. Working with the recently deceased incorporates both art and science and embalming is the first step ...

Some of us staged an immersive, independent, multi-location production of Shakespeare's Hamlet within the world of Grand Theft Auto Online. The latter is exactly what filmmakers Pinny Grylls ...

However, Grand Theft Hamlet explores this unique combination of past and present while revealing new and unexpected narrative layers at every turn. The animated documentary follows two actors ...

“The evidence we uncovered shows the embalmers had very good business sense,” said Ramadan Hussein, an Egyptologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany. “They were very smart about providing ...