Fat ham
(Book)

"Fat Ham was commissioned by and received its world premiere as a filmed production by The Wilma Theater (Blana Zizka, Yury Urnov, James Ijame and Morgan Green, Co-Artisitc Directors; Leigh Goldenberg, Managing Director) in Philadelphia on April 29, 2021."--Page [3].

"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. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet's woes. What's different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma, violence, and toxic masculinity in service of his own liberation. From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a vibrant and compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy."-- Provided by publisher.

James Ijames is a playwright, director, actor, and educator. Ijames was awarded the 2022 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 Kill Move Paradise, Abandon, The Threshing Floor, Reverie, Good Bones, Welcome Table, Media/Medea, and White. He resides in South Philadelphia.

Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2022