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, Yaël Farber, Michael Longhurst, and Max Webster), a new version of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife (which will reunite Olivier-winning playwright Laura Wade with Tamara Harvey), and a series of nationwide tours of Rupert Goold’s 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.
For more season details, visit RSC.org.uk.