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FAT HAM
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DETAILSÜBER DAS STÜCK
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece with his new drama, 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. HINTERGRUND
Fat Ham opened on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre on 12 April 2023, after premiering off-Broadway at the Public Theater's Anspacher Theater on 12 May 2022. Directed by Saheem Ali, the production featured Nikki Crawford, Chris Herbie Holland, Billy Eugene Jones, Adrianna Mitchell, Calvin Leon Smith, Marcel Spears and Benja Kay Thomas. 
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AWARDS & NOMINIERUNGEN
2022 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Drama - James Ijames (Auszeichnung) 2023 Tony® Awards Best Play (Nominierung) Best Direction of a Play - Saheem Ali (Nominierung) Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play - Nikki Crawford (Nominierung) Best Costume Design of a Play - Dominique Fawn Hill (Nominierung) Best Lighting Design of a Play - Bradley King (Nominierung) 2023 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Play (Nominierung) Outstanding Sound Design of a Play - Mikaal Sulaiman (Nominierung) 2023 Drama League Awards Outstanding Production of a Play (Nominierung) Distinguished Performance - Marcel Spears (Nominierung) 2023 Outer Critics Circle Awards John Gassner Award for New American Play - James Ijames (Auszeichnung) 2024 Lambda Literary Award Drama - James Ijames (Auszeichnung) BESETZUNG
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Juicy is thicc. 20-21, Black. He’s beautiful. He is lonely. He is smart. A kind of Hamlet. Tedra is Juicy’s mother. 45-50, Black. She is a good mother. A kind of Gertrude. Rev is Tedra's husband. 45-50, Black. Her dead ex-husband’s brother. Pigfarmer and pitmaster. Electric. A kind of Claudius. Same actor as PAP. Opal is one of Juicy’s only friends. 19-20. Black. She loves Ham and worries about him. A kind of Ophelia. Larry is a boy that is attracted to Juicy. 21-23. Black. A marine. Trying to heal from PTSD. Has a secret. Awkward. A kind of Laertes. Rabby is Larry and Opal’s mother. 40-45. Black. Tedra’s friend. Semi-churchy but honestly she just wanna drink and praise the Lord. A kind of Polonius. Pap is the Ghost of Juicy’s father. Appears 45ish. Black. Was in prison for killing someone cause their breath stank, til he got shanked on the way to dinner. A kind of Hamlet's Father. Same actor as REV. Tio is clever. 20-40. Black or Afro-Latinx. Juicy’s cousin. Oldest friend. A kind of Horatio. MEDIENVIDEOS
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