‘The Thanksgiving Play’ Broadway Review: Stuffing and Asides
metroweekly.comAin’t No Mo, Cost of Living, Leopoldstadt, Good Night, Oscar, and now, The Thanksgiving Play (★★★★★), a dark and devilish satire by Larissa FastHorse.While gratitude should be a reflection and practice we incorporate into our daily lives, it is a virtue most closely associated with the fourth Thursday of November.
That’s when we gather with friends and family, stuff ourselves silly with turkey, watch football, and fall asleep on the couch — all in the name of a long-perpetuated myth.FastHorse is having none of it.
With The Thanksgiving Play, the 2020 Macarthur Fellow and recipient of numerous literary and theater awards shines an uncomfortable, long overdue light on the nation’s celebration of Thanksgiving.Fear not.
There won’t be a pop quiz. Nor will it feel like a lecture or a didactic history lesson. Instead, you get 90 zippy minutes of off-the-rails comedy performed by four recognizable and immensely talented actors, all attempting to achieve the same goal: to create and stage a new play that recognizes and honors Native Americans without being offensive or exclusive to any group.As a first-day rehearsal gift to high school drama director Logan (Katie Finneran), her boyfriend Jaxton (Scott Foley), a street performer helping to craft the play, buys her a water bottle.
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