‘Fat Ham’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2022, is loosely based on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’ Although the main characters have parallels in both and the conflict of father versus son is the common underpinning, Ijames takes the inevitability of family and societal violence on a different sort of journey in a different sort of vehicle.
Preview: River & Rail’s ‘Fat Ham’ Channels the Bard
One of the many reasons that Shakespeare’s plays are still with us both as literature and dramatic production is that they carry universal themes that seem to exist happily outside of their original context. That is the case with River…