The first virtual reality-version of Hamlet available on Youtube

Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet” has been set up in all sorts of forms all over the world. Now the time has come for the first virtual reality version, the vr-movie of “Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit,” produced by Boston-Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Google. The original text is greatly shortened, the film that recently had it’s premiere is only one hour long, which, however, is something of a record vr-world. The scene is a rekvisitaspäckad, anachronistic environment where Hamlet, played by Jack Cutmore-Scott, delivers his ”to be or not to be”-monologue submerged in a bathtub. The viewer gets the honor to ”be” the ghost, Hamlet’s murdered father. The author and theatre manager Steven Grinds, see ‘ Hamlet 360…” partly as a way to find new, young theatre audience, partly as a way to ”democratising” Shakespeare. The film can be found on Yotube.