A play about self liberation, black culture and queer identity is coming to the Old Globe this weekend. Fat Ham is an award-winning story that reimagines a timeless Shakespeare tale.
“The play is set in North Carolina, so it's set in the south,” said the show’s director Sideeq Heard. “So what we see are the traditions and customs similar to being in a black church, right? We have a big family prayer that we all can recognize.”
“We have Juicy who's coming into his queerness, Opal who's coming into their queerness, Larry who's discovering their queerness,” the director said. “So we have these characters who are trying to figure out their identity. And along that journey we end up pulling in an audience.”He said his character shows that black queerness, and queerness in general, can look many ways.
Boswell is originally from Alabama. She said the story of “Fat Ham” is honest and shows real people from the South.“We don't hear stories written about women like this, or families like this – and this is real life!” Boswell exclaimed. “I grew up going to my grandmother's house with my family, everybody was playing cards. The drinkers were drinking, the smokers were smoking. And I grew up around that sort of energy and that camaraderie.
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