After
Hamlet on the Titanic and a musical version set to Radiohead* the RSC has its third go at the story this year: I've not got the best history with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, having found a number of past winners underwhelming at best, but in general it still seems to be a respected award, so James Ijames' 2022 winner must have made for one of the few times actors have actively wanted to be called
Fat Ham.
Fat Ham, I hear it and I know,
Fat Ham,
Fat Ham, I know you wanna take me home,
Fat Ham, and get to know me close,
Fat Ham,
Fat Ham, when your heart goes
Fat Ham is a self-aware, modern-day adaptation of
Hamlet that takes the "ham" part of the title (and, I guess, the Danish part of the story) and turns the royal family into one that's made a living out of pork products, raising pigs, butchering them and cooking them in their restaurant.
