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The company of The Thanksgiving Play; photo by Joan Marcus

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Jennifer Bareilles and Greg Keller; photo by Joan Marcus

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Greg Keller, Jennifer Bareilles, Jeffrey Bean, and Margo Seibert; photo by Joan Marcus

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Jennifer Bareilles and Margo Seibert; photo by Joan Marcus

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Black and white portrait of playwright Larissa FastHorse, an Indigenous woman wearing a leather jacket, large ring on her right hand, and feather in her hair.

Larissa FastHorse; photo by Zack DeZon

The Thanksgiving Play


Peter Jay Sharp Theater


Written by Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel

World premiere

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With the Gender Equality in History Grant, the Excellence in Educational Theater Fellowship, a municipal arts grant and the Go! Girls! Scholastic Leadership Mentorship, this is far more than a Thanksgiving play.

Ah, Thanksgiving, that most American of holidays: when families gather to celebrate the warmth of home, the bounty of the harvest — and a legacy of genocide and violent colonial expansion. 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.

Featuring
Creative Team
Wilson Chin
Scenic Design
Tilly Grimes
Costume & Puppet Design
Isabella Byrd
Lighting Design
Mikaal Sulaiman
Sound Design
Katie Ailinger
Production Stage Manager
Jenny Kennedy
Assistant Stage Manager
Reviews
  • “The familiar, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Americans chowing down together gets a delicious roasting from expert farceurs.”

    — Jesse Green, The New York Times
  • “Very, very funny. Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play skewers liberal pretensions with glee – this clever satire is something for which to be truly thankful.”

    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter