The Thanksgiving Play, Larissa FastHorse
The Thanksgiving Play, Larissa FastHorse
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The Thanksgiving Play

Author: Larissa FastHorse

Narrator: Ellis Greer, Josh Stamberg, Liza Weil, Mark Jude Sullivan

Unabridged: 1 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/15/2021


Synopsis

A group of politically correct teachers are tasked with creating a Thanksgiving play for their students. They hire a Native American actor to lend authenticity to the proceedings. When it turns out she’s ethnically ambiguous the teachers are left to navigate the resulting pitfalls in this rich satire. Includes a conversation with playwright Larissa FastHorse.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.

Director: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Ellis Greer as Alicia
Josh Stamberg as Jaxton
Mark Jude Sullivan as Caden
Liza Weil as Logan

Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Recording Engineers: Neil Wogenson and Mark Holden
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner
Mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Lead funding for The Thanksgiving Play is generously provided by: Barbara Timmer and Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Mike and Beth Kasser, The John Logan Foundation/Desert Wolf Productions, Jamie Wolf

“Ode to Joy” opening recorder quartet performed by Ulung Tanoto on his YouTube channel Si Ulung.

The Thanksgiving Play was commissioned and originally produced by Artists Repertory Theatre, Damaso Rodriguez, Artistic Director; Sarah Horton, Managing Director, Portland, Oregon.
Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of The Thanksgiving Play in 2018.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on November 10, 2022

A play produced by LA Theater Works that satirizes everything--the holiday's fake roots in a mythical dinner featuring the supposedly happy getting-together of white rock raider "pilgrims" and Native Americans, and a play produced by four pretentious and politically correct actors for an elementary......more

Goodreads review by Cori on December 08, 2019

Ten million stars. Ten.million.stars. This play has one of the best lines ever. Here it is: (Referring to a mason jar intended to be used as a water bottle) “It’s made with recycled glass from broken windows in housing projects.” This play perfectly (shall we say “acutely”? Lol) exemplifies woke cultu......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on September 22, 2021

I really don’t know how to rate this play. The play involves two White teachers and a White street performer who hire an actress who they think is Native American to help them write a culturally sensitive Thanksgiving play for schoolkids. In this supposed comedic satire, naturally, the actress turns......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 24, 2020

Reads as a farce and satire on good-intentioned liberalism; it centers around four white characters trying to do justice and speak about the horrors of racialized violence that whites perpetrated against Indigenous people, and FastHorse's writing stages how characters' moments of epiphany get papere......more

Goodreads review by maddie on June 18, 2024

i read this during the semester and just never logged it??? did a scene from it so. never have i ever said so many words that meant absolutely nothing......more