Fat Ham is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright James Ijames. It is a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The play was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama [1] [2] [3] and was nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play.

Fat Ham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning one-act play by playwright James Ijames that premiered in 2021. It recounts tensions in a Black Southern family through its protagonist Juicy, a young queer man who struggles with his identity and life purpose.

Apr 13, 2023 · Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, “Fat Ham” recasts its source material to imagine what Shakespeare did not — how people might overcome circumstances, expectations and their own demons to...

"What do you do if God don't want you and the devil won't have you?"...FAT HAM provides a rare gem of a play-exceptional acting and a theme so contemporary that it impacts just about everyone in the room."

“A thousand jokes, a thousand stuck landings.” Don’t miss the laugh-out-loud brilliance of Virginia Stage Company and Virginia Rep’s FAT HAM.

As tensions sizzle and generations collide, Juicy must decide whether to break the cycle of violence or embrace his own path. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, Fat Ham is a fresh, electrifying take on legacy, masculinity, and transformation.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Fat Ham is a delectable comic tragedy written by the award-winning playwright James Ijames, originally co-produced off-Broadway by The Public Theater and National Black Theatre.

Apr 29, 2021 · Built on the gnawed bones of its predecessor, and reset in the modern-day South among members of a Black family that runs a barbecue restaurant, “Fat Ham” refuses the tropes of Black suffering...

Jan 21, 2025 · In collaboration with Theatre Goodman, Phillips started the 2025 season with Ijames's thought-provoking and creatively rich play, Fat Ham, an offshoot of Hamlet. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" has been rewritten numerous times throughout history.