Videogames/theatre folk! I'm watching 'Grand Theft Hamlet' and finding it perfectly entertaining. However, I'm skeptical about the creators' claim that it is the first full-length performance of a Shakespeare play in a videogame environment. Surely, there have been performances before 2021? - ThreadSky

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profmikesell.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Videogames/theatre folk!
I'm watching 'Grand Theft Hamlet' and finding it perfectly entertaining. However, I'm skeptical about the creators' claim that it is the first full-length performance of a Shakespeare play in a videogame environment. Surely, there have been performances before 2021?

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pdmcdonald.bsky.social•7 days ago

The Under presents The Tempest was not the full play, but I would still count it as a full length performance (2019)

profmikesell.bsky.social•7 days ago

Interesting--thanks!

brightwell.bsky.social•1 day ago

But it’s not anywhere near a full-length perf of Hamlet! Surely they’re not claiming that? (Oh and hi, Mike!)

profmikesell.bsky.social•1 day ago

Paul!

rmclaycomb.bsky.social•8 days ago

I once had a student do a project where he tried to perform all of “To be or not to be” in World of Warcraft, starting over every time he was killed. After four hours he had not gotten to the fourth line.

profmikesell.bsky.social•8 days ago

Part of the brilliance of Grand Theft Hamlet is the way it thematizes the ubiquitous, random violence of GTA Online. There are some genuinely lol moments as well as others that attempt a deeper take on it.

amfisher.bsky.social•9 days ago

The Tragedy of MacQBerth, while full of cursing, was a classic.

quakefultales.bsky.social•9 days ago

Elsinore is Hamlet but hypertext so I don't know if it technically counts as "full length performance"

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