| Fat Ham Last Night | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 10:16 am EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| I loved Fat Ham, James IJames’ smart and very funny satire of middle class Black life, as told by appropriating Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Set in “a house in North Carolina - could also be Virginia, or Maryland or Tennessee. It is not in Mississippi or Alabama or Florida. That’s a different thing altogether.” I have a New York friend who grew up in Alabama. He thought that description was very funny and telling. Mr. IJames also uses the phrase, “liminal space” to describe life in the South. Anyone who can do that is A-OK in my book. It’s a barbecue, and the family has been invited. The outsider who interprets what’s going on for the audience is named Juicy and is played with style and class by Marcel Spears. The other family members (Nikki Crawford, Chris Herbie Holland, Billy Eugene Jones, Adrianna Mitchell, Calvin Leon Smith, and Benja Kay Thomas) gather in the backyard and pretend to enjoy each other’s company. Of course, when you’re pretending, things come undone fairly easily. Nevertheless, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” it’s not. 100 minutes fly by until we hit the big finale, which, indeed, is very big. I won’t say anything to spoil it. Not a lot of time left before it closes at the American Airlines Theatre. See it if at all possible. Bill Eadie |
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