Samuel French Ltd Fat Ham

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece with his new drama a delectable comic tragedy.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 demandingthat 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 selfaware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma and violence in service of his own liberation.From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a compelling examination of love and loss pain and joy.