Island City Stage Is The First of Two Local Theaters To Stage 'Fat Ham'

Warten Foundation Support Leads To Collaboration Between Island City Stage, GableStage, and Brévo Theatre

By Aaron Krause for Miami Artzine

Confetti falls at the end of a fantastic South Florida three-way co-production of James Ijames's juicy and raucous, yet tender Pulitzer-Prize winning comedy, "Fat Ham."

Clearly, a party is underway. In addition to the raining confetti, the lighting frequently changes color, upbeat music plays, and one of the characters dances vivaciously in drag.

If someone walked into this scene knowing nothing about the bold and imaginative, "Fat Ham," they would probably not be able to connect it to "that dead white guy," William Shakespeare. But this is "Fat Ham," a play that deftly merges comedy with gravity, and a multi-award-winning modern-day comedic adaptation of Shakespeare's great tragedy, "Hamlet." …………………………………..Click here to read the entire review.