Follow link to the Royal Shakespeare Company production of FAT HAM. The play by James IJames won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2022. It’s a ‘kind of version of Hamlet’ set in the Southern USA, at a barbeque to commemorate the death of a father / marriage of the mother to her brother-in-law. The Hamlet figure is a young gay African-American. It’s very different (the deceased dad is a villain), hilarious and I can see why it did so well in awards. It’s running at the Swan Theatre until September 13th. Two weeks to go. Well worth the effort to see it.
Karaoke replaces the Payer’s Scene. Here Tedra (the mother so ‘kind of Gertrude’) lets it rip, watched by Opal (the kind of Ophelia), Rabby (the kind of Polonius) and Rev (the kind of Claudius).
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