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.

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 Hamreinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbeque in the American South.

James IJamesis a playwright, director, actor, and educator. Ijames was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama forFat 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 includeThe Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha WashingtonandWhite. He resides in South Philadelphia.

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group (August 1, 2023)
• Alt: James I James
• Language: English
• Paperback: 112 pages
• ISBN-10: 163670168X
• ISBN-13: 9781636701684
• Item Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 8 inches