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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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0:00.0 | From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. |
0:07.0 | I'm Farah Karim Cooper, the Folger Director. |
0:11.0 | In the video game series, Grand Theft Auto, you play a criminal in fictionalized versions of real cities. |
0:20.0 | So typically, you do criminal things, |
0:22.6 | like stealing cars, beating people up, or smuggling drugs. |
0:28.6 | But Grant Theft Auto is an open-world game, |
0:32.6 | which means you could choose to do any of those things, |
0:35.6 | or something completely different. |
0:38.5 | You could drive around town all day listening to the radio. |
0:42.6 | Or you could put on a play. |
0:45.4 | Which is exactly what the actor Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen chose to do during the pandemic. |
0:51.7 | Sam's partner, filmmaker Penny Grillsills decided to turn their quest to stage |
0:56.1 | Hamlet inside the game into a documentary. The resulting film, Grand Theft Hamlet, has all |
1:03.9 | the backstage drama of putting on a play in the real world, except they're performing |
1:09.2 | for an audience full of heavily armed trigger-happy gamers. |
1:14.1 | Here are Penny Grills and my friend Sam Crane in conversation with Barbara Bogue. |
1:21.2 | Before we get into the real story, I think you guys better explain how this game works. |
1:26.7 | So, Sam, you were the Grand Theft Auto addict, at least in the beginning. |
1:30.8 | So why don't you do the honors for us? |
1:32.5 | Okay, so Grand Theft also, it's what they call an open world game. |
1:37.9 | So it's basically a kind of recreation of Los Angeles. |
1:43.5 | The city that the game is set in is called Los Santos, which is like |
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