Fat Ham
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece with his new drama a delectable comic tragedy. 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 selfaware 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.

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Fat Ham
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece with his new drama a delectable comic tragedy. 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 selfaware 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.

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Fat Ham

Fat Ham

by James Ijames
Fat Ham

Fat Ham

by James Ijames

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Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece with his new drama a delectable comic tragedy. 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 selfaware 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780573710384
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Publication date: 06/29/2023
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

James Ijames is a playwright, director, and educator. Ijames’ plays have been produced by Flashpoint Theater Company, Orbiter 3, Theatre Horizon, Wilma Theatre, The National Black Theatre, Definition Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Shotgun Players, and have received development with PlayPenn New Play Conference, The Lark, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Villanova Theater, Wilma Theater, Azuka Theatre, and Victory Garden.

Ijames was a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first playwright producing collective. He received a B.A. in drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA and a M.F.A. in acting from Temple Universityin Philadelphia, PA. Ijames is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova Universityand the Lead Artistic Director of the Wilma Theater. He resides in South Philadelphia.

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