Fat Ham

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames'Fat Hamreinvents 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.Juicya young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identityis visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mothers 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 fathers premature death?Fat Hamreinvents Shakespeares masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South.