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. Juicya young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identityis visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mothers 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 fathers premature death? Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeares masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South.