THEATRE: The Thanksgiving Play

The Thanksgiving Play
By Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Brian Gill

Main Stage Theatre

All events at the Rita are masked events.

Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally “woke” teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month. The American origin story sits unassumingly in the crosshairs of blunt comedy in this biting examination of well-meaning political correctness, the awkwardness of culturally appropriative missteps, and the surprisingly insurmountable challenge to devise an elementary school pageant free of unintentional offenses.

Reserve Seats