Friday, April 21, 2023
Review Roundup: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Opens On Broadway Starring D'Arcy Carden, Katie Finneran, Scott Foley, and Chris Sullivan
www.broadwayworld.com: MacArthur Genius Larissa FastHorse's shocking satire flips the bird on one of America's most prolific myths. The Thanksgiving Play arrives on Broadway in a brutally funny and raw new production directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown, Great Comet). When a troupe of really, really well-meaning theater artists attempt to put on a culturally sensitive Thanksgiving school pageant, things get messy. Hilarious and poignant, this delicious play skewers everything right, wrong, and woke in America.
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The reviews seem really mixed for The Thanksgiving Play and I can’t quite get a grasp of what the play is actually targeting historically/politically just from the article which is a little infuriating. The fact the summary is so vague makes me suspicious of what is actually in the play because from what I read it’s about how Thanksgiving is a lie of a holiday trying to cover up the horrors of european colonization of the americas–but it’s actually about making fun of “woke” liberals who acknowledge this??? I also think it’s a little funny that IF part of the point of the play is to call out the fallacies associated with thanksgiving and it’s white-dominated presence pushing other voices of color out, that it’s a play directed and produced by white people on subject that many of the commentators say is an old overdone laugh subject and takes room in the theatre world from the production of something else that is newer and more diverse.
I think the Tent Theatre is really cool in that it brings together one of the hardest facets of the theater industry–writers. It is incredibly hard to get published/produced for many entry-mid level playwrights and musical scorers. There are so many applications a day to different companies that it can be like applying to a wall with lack of human interaction. I think these meetings are a good way to humanize the collaboration process. I also like the advocacy for elders incorporation to the theatrical process and writing positions as I think what they said about their survey “collect data about aging artists and art-making; continuing to produce readings for the playwrights; hosting monthly writers' groups; offering financial and healthcare education seminars; presenting public sharing of the writers' work; and advocating for theaters to include elders in their seasons” is a step towards equal accessibility options.
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