Fat Ham

"A funny, poignant play that deftly transposes Hamlet to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty." —Pulitzer Prize Committee

"James Ijames’s outstanding transformation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into a play about Black masculinity and queerness, both echoes Hamlet and finds a language beyond it...the effect is stunning, making the play a living text, moving between Hamlet, the story happening on the stage and the world beyond the fourth wall." —The New York Times

"Fat Ham is brilliantly alive, a true tragicomedy (or a very, very funny tragedy) and an exuberantly metatheatrical dialogue with Shakespeare, America, and toxic masculinity, all at once." —Exeunt

"A fresh and vital force." —New Yorker

"Momentous and remarkable...a masterpiece." —Theatermania