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Fat Ham (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781636701684)
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xWinner 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.
Finalist for 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.
Author: James Ijames
ISBN-10: 163670168X
ISBN-13: 9781636701684
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d
By James Ijames
x James IJames is a playwright, director, actor, and educator. Ijames was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 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 include The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington and White. He resides in South Philadelphia.
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