Fat Ham
ISBN: 9781636701684
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Year first published: 09 Nov 2023
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
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.