iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: The Thanksgiving Play wriggles in performative wokeness
In 2024, is there a way to produce an engaging, culturally sensitive play about the first American Thanksgiving for elementary schoolers? The Thanksgiving Play, penned by Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse and now playing at Mirvish’s CAA Theatre, poses that question in its first five minutes, then throws the query out with the cranberry sauce in its madcap exploration of a devised theatre piece at an unnamed primary school.
By Aisling Murphy
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Oct 6, 2024
iPhoto caption: The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine production still by Curtis Perry.
iPhoto caption: Samca production still by Barry McCluskey.
iPhoto caption: King James production still by Dahlia Katz.