Fat Ham

James Ijames

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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
09 November 2023

Ethnic studies

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

Winner of 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 Hamreinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South.

By: James Ijames
Imprint: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 134mm,
ISBN: 9781636701684
ISBN 10: 163670168X
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 09 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James IJamesis a playwright, director, actor, and educator. Ijames was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama forFat Ham. His other awards include a Pew Fellowship, the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Artist, the Terrence McNally New Play Award, a Whiting Award, a Kesselring Prize, and a Steinberg Prize. His other plays includeThe Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha WashingtonandWhite. He resides in South Philadelphia.

Reviews for Fat Ham

"""James Ijames's outstanding transformation of Shakespeare's tragedy into a play about Black masculinity and queerness, both echoes Hamlet and finds a language beyond it . . . the effect is stunning, making the play a living text, moving between Hamlet, the story happening on the stage, and the world beyond the fourth wall."" --Maya Phillips, The New York Times ""A fresh and vital force."" --Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker ""A broad, buoyant comedy . . . James Ijames's riff on Hamlet is an unalloyed comedy pleasure."" --Charles Isherwood, Wall Street Journal ""Hamlet said it first: 'What a piece of work.'"" --Helen Shaw, Vulture ""Unabashedly entertaining . . . We need plays like Fat Ham."" --Peter Marks, Washington Post"