“The show is called Fat Ham, and the writer is James Ijames. Dezart Performs’ latest production is directed by Michael Shaw, the company’s artistic director. He comes out to speak to the audience before the play begins and pronounces the author’s unusual name for us—but does not explain the play’s unusual name.
Fat Ham won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and its Broadway production was nominated for five Tony Awards—heavy kudos in its favor. So, too, were the “sold out” sign at the entrance, and the lively packed house inside.
The time is essentially now, and the play is set in the South (as the program amusingly states, North Carolina, possibly Virginia, Maryland or Tennessee), but the actors fortunately do not attempt heavy Southern accents. The open set is the back of a house, with a bit of the yard and the fence’s gate off to stage left…”
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