Firehouse Theatre
Co-Produced with Richmond Triangle Players

April 16 – 19, 2025

1609 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23220

Fat Ham

By James Ijames

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham”, playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare’s masterful drama as 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, demanding that 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 self-aware 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.

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