How three out-of-work friends spent COVID staging a tragedy inside a comedy in GTA Online — and made a doc about it

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 lockdown staging Shakespeare's masterpiece on the mean streets of "Grand Theft Auto V.

The documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, directed by Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls, tells the incredible true story of how a group of actors banded together to perform Hamlet in the world of Grand Theft Auto Online.

The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community and connection.

A new documentary transforms the ultraviolent world of “GTA Online” into an absurd and profound Shakespearean stage.

Faced with COVID lockdown, two out-of-work actors reach for Shakespeare in an experimental documentary that creates art on the mean streets of GTA's Los Santos.