Fat Ham

By James Ijames

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.

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163670168X
• ISBN13: 9781636701684
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"