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The people who put on a production of Hamlet… inside Grand Theft Auto

IN FOCUS: During the pandemic, two out-of-work actors decided to mount a Shakespeare adaptation within the blocky, sun-kissed world of ‘Grand Theft Auto’. Now their unexpectedly touching story has been brought to life in a new documentary, writes Greg Evans

The Independent UK

Grand Theft Hamlet review – in-game Shakespeare performance is brilliantly exciting

In a hilarious and surreal documentary, two out-of-work actors decide to stage the tragedy within Los Santos with dreamlike and fascinating results

The Guardian - UK

Video game theater reaches the next level in Grand Theft Hamlet, a GTA Online Shakespeare production where even the director can be killed

Interview: "They might shoot us": Grand Theft Hamlet's documentary filmmakers Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls on dying during filming and why Grand Theft Auto Online's Los Santos is the perfect destination for Shakespeare

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To be or not to be: could actors really pull off staging Hamlet in the violent video game Grand Theft Auto?

During lockdown, an out-of-work actor discovered a venue within the bestselling game and decided to put on Shakespeare’s great work with friends... they just had to avoid the audience shooting them

Evening Standard

Twelfth Night at Orange Tree Theatre review: subtly radical, and impressively nuanced

4/5 Tom Littler’s 1940s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy might seem staid on the surface, but there’s a lot going on underneath

Evening Standard

Twelfth Night review – a classy, musical and seasonal feast. Play on

With its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Children don’t just need butterflies and rainbows’

The Hamnet author talks about bringing her bestselling Shakespeare novel to the screen, working with Paul Mescal, and how her speech disorder inspired her latest children’s book

The Guardian - UK

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The play that changed my life: Janet Suzman on staging Othello in apartheid South Africa

Putting on Shakespeare’s tragedy at Johannesburg’s Market theatre was a risky endeavour and caused an astonishing reaction

The Guardian - UK

Apartment within 'Arcadian' historical house in Hampton Court on sale for 1.2m

A beautiful residence that was once the home of David Garrick is now on the market

Evening Standard

To be, or not to be: world-first exhibition of "living portraits" celebrates the best Shakespearean actors of our generation

Patrick Stewart, Juliet Stevenson and Sir Ian McKellen feature in "a pioneering chapter in the convergence of portraiture and performing arts"

Digital Camera World

Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen

Ahead of Grand Theft Hamlet, in which Shakespeare’s play is staged entirely inside a video game, check out cinema’s avenging princes, from Laurence Olivier to Ethan Hawke

The Guardian - UK

All’s Well That Ends Well review – Shakespeare’s problem play lays bare clashing passions

Chelsea Walker’s sleek production wavers between comic and dramatic as it charts a kind of love triangle

The Guardian - UK

All’s Well That Ends Well at The Globe review: brisk, brutal and delightfully succinct

3/5 It’s not one for the ages, but this is a welcome chance to enjoy Shakespeare’s early ‘problem’ play

Evening Standard

AI can't replace creative filmmaking, says Ben Affleck

Movie star Ben Affleck has observed that AI "cannot write you Shakespeare".

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The Guardian - UK

Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

The Conversation

People can’t tell the difference between human and AI-generated poetry – new study

Has the bell finally tolled for Shakespeare and Byron? New research conducted by philosophers of science Brian Porter and Edouard Machery suggests that the latest AI-generated poetry is “indistinguishable from human-written poetry” and “rated more favourably”.

Newcastle Herald

Love and grief collide in leafy adaption of Twelfth Night

Shakespeare is headed to Newcastle East.

The Guardian - UK

Sigourney Weaver’s West End debut as Prospero evokes a storm of past Tempests

The Hollywood star is to appear at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Shakespeare’s late play about sorcery. But what is the secret to playing the great magician?

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Lukita Maxwell Is the Emotional Anchor of 'Shrinking' Season 2

The rising star discusses playing grieving teenager Alice on the Apple TV+ dramedy and acting alongside Brett Goldstein and Jason Segel.

The Guardian - UK

Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90

With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards

The Guardian - UK

Olivia Rodrigo is right: you shouldn’t date anyone who wants to go into space. But I have other red flags

The pop star has reminded us to shun would-be astronauts such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, writes Arwa Mahdawi. But what about people who hang toilet paper the wrong way?

Inverse

HBO Just Exposed a Dark Truth About Blockbuster Movies

Ticket sales aren't the only way superhero movies can recoup their massive budgets.

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Bill Nighy stole 'the complete works of Shakespeare' from a library

Bill Nighy stole from a library after applying for the Guildford School of Acting.

The Guardian - US

When Trump says he’s going to ‘protect’ women, we know he means ‘control’

Rights we have taken for granted can, as we saw with the overturning of Roe v Wade, be suddenly yanked away

The Guardian - AU

Paul Kelly: ‘Most of the time when I’m writing songs, I’m boring myself’

The singer-songwriter on the mystery of writing songs, Shakespeare and why he isn’t a natural musician

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