Fat Ham
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Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.
Juicyโa young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identityโis visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his motherโs 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 fatherโs premature death?ย Fat Hamย reinvents Shakespeareโs masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South.
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ย James IJamesย is a playwright, director, actor, and educator. Ijames was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama forย Fat Ham. His other awards include a Pew Fellowship, the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Artist, the Terrence McNally New Play Award, a Whiting Award, a Kesselring Prize, and a Steinberg Prize. His other plays includeย The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washingtonย andย White. He resides in South Philadelphia.
