England's Royal Shakespeare Company will stage the European premiere of Pulitzer-winning play Fat Ham as a part of their Summer 2025 season.
James Ijames's play, which premiered in New York in 2022, is a reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet. 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.
Fat Ham joins a larger summer season, which will include Hamlet Hail to the Thief, 4.48 Psychosis, five new Shakespeare productions (to be directed by Joanna Bowman, Emily Burns, Ya毛l Farber, Michael Longhurst, and Max Webster), a new version of W. Somerset Maugham鈥檚 The Constant Wife (which will reunite Olivier-winning playwright Laura Wade with Tamara Harvey), and a series of nationwide tours of Rupert Goold鈥檚 Hamlet and First Encounters: King Lear.
Additionally, the company will stage a special family friendly version of The BFG. Produced in collaboration with the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Roald Dahl Story Company, The BFG is adapted by Tom Wells and will be directed by Daniel Evans.
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Nikki Crawford, Billy Eugene Jones, Benja Kay Thomas, Marcel Spears,
Adrianna Mitchell, and Calvin Leon Smith
Calvin Leon Smith, Nikki Crawford, Billy Eugene Jones, Benja Kay
Thomas, Adrianna Mitchell, and Marcel Spears
Marcel Spears and Adrianna Mitchell
Nikki Crawford, Billy Eugene Jones, Benja Kay Thomas, Adrianna Mitchell, Calvin Leon Smith, and Marcel Spears
Adrianna Mitchell and Benja Kay Thomas
Marcel Spears and Nikki Crawford in Fat Ham
Marcel Spears
Marcel Spears and Calvin Leon Smith in Fat Ham
Marcel Spears and Billy Eugene Jones
Adrianna Mitchell, Chris Herbie Holland, and Marcel Spears
