Marcel Spears, Star of Pulitzer-Winning Fat Ham, Talks Shakespeare and Southern Cookouts

Playbill: Currently in previews at The Public Theater, Marcel Spears stars as Juicy in James Ijames’ 2022 Pulitzer-winning play Fat Ham. Ijames explodes Shakespeare’s psychological classic Hamlet into a drama at times comic, at others tragic. Rather than a wedding feast in Denmark, the play takes place at a cookout in the modern-day South. Juicy, a queer college kid, grapples with similar struggles as Shakespeare’s title character: identity questions, the ghost of his father, and a supernatural demand for vengeance.