Fat Ham Critics’ Reviews
James Ijames' deliciously funny and Pulitzer Prize-winning queer adaptation of Hamlet arrives on Broadway.
James Ijames' deliciously funny and Pulitzer Prize-winning queer adaptation of Hamlet arrives on Broadway.
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. But here’s the rub! Revenge doesn’t come easy to Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man in search of his own happiness and liberation. From an uproarious family cookout emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
"With a fresh and vital force, Ijames and Juicy make the Hamlet saga more comedy than tragedy, taking a tortured story of father influence and turning it into a kind of party."
New Yorker
Vinson Cunningham
"James Ijames’ outstanding transformation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into a play about Black masculinity and queerness, both echoes Hamlet and finds a language beyond it."
The New York Times
Maya Phillips