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.

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.

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

Grand Theft Hamlet” is a pointed, entertaining and moving examination of interdisciplinary conductivity at its most surprising.

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.

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’ ill-advised attempts to stage a full-length production of Hamlet in a video game world;

There are, at a minimum, and I checked, 18 bazillion adaptations of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." It's one of the most beloved and scrutinized texts in the whole of the English language. More actors than anyone can count -- strike that,