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The Thanksgiving Play follows four white individuals who are determined to create a politically correct First Thanksgiving play for Native American Heritage Month in schools. Logan, the director, hires an actress named Alicia, believing she is Native American, to provide cultural authenticity.
The Thanksgiving Play wasn’t Fasthorse’s first play honored by the list, but it was the play that catapulted her into mainstream acclaim, suggesting the longstanding neglect of Indigenous playwrights by the American theater. When the play made its New York debut off-Broadway in 2018, Fasthorse became the first Indigenous American playwright ...
Punctuated by offensive (and completely real) Thanksgiving songs from educators' social media, Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play is a hilarious satiric jab at political correctness, social wokeness, and cultural assumptions.
12 kwi 2023 · How 'The Thanksgiving Play' on Broadway roasts and reexamines history. The show's cast and creative team share what makes Larissa FastHorse's satire timely and the lessons they've learned that they hope audiences will, too.
9 paź 2024 · In Larissa FastHorse's satire The Thanksgiving Play, four well-meaning white theatre nerds attempt to create a culturally sensitive elementary school Thanksgiving show, without the guidance of...
12 kwi 2023 · FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play—which opens at New York’s Helen Hayes Theater on April 20—aims to tell the real story behind the beloved American holiday.
21 lis 2023 · Larissa FastHorse is updating the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to make it "less harmful" to Indigenous people. She's also consulting on a new Peter Pan and has a satire called The...
