When Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen decided to stage Shakespeare’s tragedy in the anarchic online game, unexpected humanity emerged from the mayhem
‘There is something really theatrically powerful about being in a space where you’re on the edge of chaos all the time’ … a still from the 2024 documentary Grand Theft Hamlet.‘There is something really theatrically powerful about being in a space where you’re on the edge of chaos all the time’ … a still from the 2024 documentary Grand Theft Hamlet.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning There’s DJ Phil89: a Hamlet-loving literary agent and GTA novice who was borrowing her nephew’s account to audition; his shirtless male avatar shows up in a top hat, aviator sunglasses and board shorts. And Lizzie Wofford, AKA Woffdawg: an actor and voice artist from London who recites Brutus’s Act 2, Scene 1 monologue. “Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius.
Between breaks in mayhem, the cast open up about their real life struggles. Oosterveen is childless, single and alone in lockdown and has just lost his last relative; Crane and Grylls’ marriage becomes strained by the amount of time they spend in-game, to the detriment of their real world relationship. And production hurdles are heightened by the constant threat of assassination by random players stumbling on their rehearsals.
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