James Ijames’s Fat Ham dances on the bones of Hamlet. Make no mistake, Fat Ham is not a sequel to Hamlet. It is not “Hamlet with Black people”.
Fat Ham uses the silhouette of Shakespeare’s masterwork to birth something new, a vicious critique of masculinity and violence infused with a much-needed hilarity. Juicy (Marcel Spears), a Black queer man, is visited by his father’s ghost Pap (Billy Eugene Jones). Akin to Hamlet, Juicy is tasked with avenging his father’s death and killing his uncle.
