Instead of the tragedy-and-then-some of “Hamlet,” “Fat Ham,” now at the Public Theater, is a play that emphasizes life, and specifically Black queer joy
The play, a co-production of the National Black Theatre and Public Theater, is set not in the Danish court of yore, but in the present day at a Southern backyard barbecue celebration of the wedding of Tedra and her dead husband’s brother, Rev .
Tio lays out Juicy’s predicament at the beginning. “Your Pop went to jail, his Pop went to jail, his Pop went jail, his Pop went to jail, and what’s before that? Huh? Slavery. It’s inherited trauma. You carrying around your whole family’s trauma, man. And that’s OK. You OK. But you don’t got to let it define you.” The play explores how Juicy follows Tio’s wise words and avoids the tragedy of, and the violence within it, especially when Rev takes every opportunity to demean Juicy so cruelly.
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