In Second Stage Theater’s Broadway production of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY written by Larissa FastHorse of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, directed by Tony Award Winning Director Rachel Chavkin, this play uses humor and absurdity to address our society’s inability to recorrect it’s happy “peaceful dinner” narrative to the brutal reality of how Indigenous communities that have been massacred, brutalized, and erased from American narratives and especially their own land. With a star filled cast including D’arcy Carden (TV’s The Good Place and A League of their Own), Award Winner Katie Finneran (Noises Off, Promises Promises), Scott Foley, and Chris Sullivan play teachers and actors in real time trying to figure out how a cast of all white people can effectively honor the voices of Indigenous people and their history. With a script that reflects the many conversations and efforts of out “artistically inspired allies” that is highly aware of its time and place living after the BLM movement, FastHorse tactfully writes a story centering white bodies and their allyship (even if it’s performative) to highlight the American discomfort that comes with the truth of Native American History.
