the Thanksgiving play, by Larissa Fasthorse at BNH Stage

Four really, REALLY well-meaning teaching artists walk into an elementary school. The work at hand: a Thanksgiving pageant that won’t ruffle any feathers. What could possibly go wrong? Well, just about everything. Rambunctious, thorny and not altogether politically correct, The Thanksgiving Play serves up the hypocrisies of woke America on a big, family-style, platter. The American origin story is in the comedy-crosshairs in the New Hampshire premiere of MacArthur Genius Larissa FastHorse’s groundbreaking satire.

*Content Transparency: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY satirizes misguided attempts by Caucasian progressives to achieve cultural inclusivity, and expresses ideas and language grounded in stereotypical assumptions about race, gender, class, educational practices, and the genocide and erasure of Native American individuals, communities, and culture in the United States.