CRITIC’S PICK: "For Larissa FastHorse, the author of “The Thanksgiving Play,” farce is not an end in itself. Rather, it is the hilarious envelope in which she delivers a brutal satire about mythmaking, and thus, in a way, about theater itself."
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"In a swift 90 minutes, 'The Thanksgiving Play' delivers solid laughs at the expense of targets that are admittedly, at this point, not unfamiliar: clueless liberals so busy holding space that they don’t get around to filling it with anything"
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"It’s a little disconcerting to hear so much laughter from the very theatregoers FastHorse caricatures — people who are not just the punchline, but also the problem — but FastHorse takes that laughter all the way to the bank."
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"One of the later videos has a band of Indigenous middle-school kids singing a punk song that mashes together...There, you get a sense of what the rest of this play is missing — the subjectivity of actual Indigenous people and children and a heart."
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"For all its knife-sharp humor, the play might be compared to a delicious Thanksgiving meal that nevertheless makes you feel a bit overstuffed, and slightly tired of your family, too."
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" 'The Thanksgiving Play'...is the sort of easy-target satire that should by all rights have sophisticated New York audiences seeing their own foibles and smiling at their own political vulnerabilities."
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“ 'The Thanksgiving Play,' ...is actually a funny and cutting piece of work. It suffers from its own moral earnestness, although kindly note I’m speaking there of its structure, not the case it makes about Thanksgiving."
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"The substance of its argument is no less pressing: How and by whom stories get told perpetuate systems of power and oppression. But the objects of its satire seem both too easy a mark and already expired."
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