Grand Theft Hamlet (MUBI); Hamlet (RSC)

Grand Theft Hamlet (MUBI); Hamlet (RSC)

“This idea is as mad as cheese.” Thus a member of the audience summed up a performance of Hamlet that took place, a few years ago, for one night only. It was, after all, a performance of Hamlet that took place in the virtual world of Grand Theft Auto Online. Vastly popular and intermittently controversial, the Grand Theft Auto series of computer games is now almost thirty years old. The online version, launched in 2013, allows players to compete…