Interview: Rachel Chavkin to direct 'The Thanksgiving Play'

The Forward: “It’s a deeply funny and brutal satire,” director Rachel Chavkin said. A satire, she said, about how the actions of “well-meaning white people” who desire to do good can actually “eclipse an earnest reckoning with the history.” Chavkin is talking about The Thanksgiving Play, in which four well-meaning, liberal white theater folks try to create a politically appropriate Thanksgiving saga for school performances.