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‘Fat Ham’ Broadway Review: Black, Queer Serving Of Shakespeare Is A Delicious Piece Of Work

Like that relative who picks through the chicken parts at a family picnic to find the leg or the breast or the thigh with just the right amount of crisp, playwright James Ijames has no reluctance to rummage through the bones of Shakespeare's Hamlet to cook up the irresistible Fat Ham.

April 13, 2023 · 1 min · 59 words · Christopher Lopez

protagonist as he struggles to find his place in the world, or at least within his own family.

Pap wants vengeance, and demands that Juicy take action.

There are enoughHamletallusions going on to convince us that Juicy just might go through with it.

Fat Ham

Adrianna Mitchell, Chris Herbie Holland, Marcel Spears, ‘Fat Ham’Joan Marcus

‘Fat Ham’ company (Credit: Joan Marcus)