American Airlines Theatre, New York James Ijames's electrifying take on Shakespeare's classic, with a Black queer man at its centre, makes for a smart update 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM on April 13, 2023