Critically-acclaimed playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece with his new drama, FAT HAM. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet’s woes. What’s different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma and violence in service of his own liberation. From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
Morgan Green
Director
James Ijames
Writer
Brennan S. Malone
Juicy
Kimberly S. Fairbanks
Tedra
Lindsay Smiling
Rev/Pap
Taysha Marie Canales
Opal
Brandon J. Pierce
Larry
Jennifer Kidwell
Rabby
Anthony Martinez-Briggs
Tio
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