RSC goes for Hamlet hat-trick with production of Fat Ham
James Ijames’s Pulitzer-winning play will be part of new season alongside adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFGThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is to complete a hat-trick of Hamlets with another version of the play unveiled as part of its spring 2025 programme.James Ijames’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, Fat Ham, is not a straightforward adaptation of the Shakespeare play, but rather a production that “both echoes Hamlet and finds a language beyond it” in the words of the New York Times, setting the action at a barbecue held by the family of a Black queer man. It will run at the Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 15 August to 13 September. Continue reading...
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James Ijames’s Pulitzer-winning play will be part of new season alongside adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is to complete a hat-trick of Hamlets with another version of the play unveiled as part of its spring 2025 programme.
James Ijames’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, Fat Ham, is not a straightforward adaptation of the Shakespeare play, but rather a production that “both echoes Hamlet and finds a language beyond it” in the words of the New York Times, setting the action at a barbecue held by the family of a Black queer man. It will run at the Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 15 August to 13 September. Continue reading...
