Fat Ham

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.

Finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.

Juicy--a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity--is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother's wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder. How will Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man, trying to break a cycle of trauma and toxic masculinity, avenge his father's premature death? Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South.

Author: James Ijames
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781636701684