Review: ‘Fat Ham’ takes on the Bard with irreverent energy

Review: ‘Fat Ham’ takes on the Bard with irreverent energy

Just like Hamlet, one who bathes in melancholia, Juicy wears his rue with a difference. Every step he takes is laced with lead, a young, portly Black man who also wishes his too-too-solid flesh would melt and resolve itself into a dew. He often applies his weight to a trampoline that doubles as his thinking space, belly straddling the polypropylene, eyes heavily pointing towards the heavens. In San Francisco Playhouse’s stirring and hilarious pr…