Dorset Event

Dorset Theatre Festival: The Thanksgiving Play

Sep 1 2023 - Sep 10 2023 Entertainment and Theater & Arts

Dorset Theatre Festival

The Thanksgiving Play

September 1 – 10 (2 weeks only!)

By Larissa Fasthorse

Directed by Rex Golden

See one of Broadway’s newest plays in Dorset! MacArthur Genius Larissa FastHorse’s shocking and hilarious satire flips the bird on one of America’s most prolific myths.

An undeterred elementary school teacher desperately attempts to devise a pageant about the first Thanksgiving – one that challenges stereotypes, meets all the requirements of a Native American Heritage Month grant, and pacifies the parents. Wanting to avoid any culturally appropriative missteps, three “woke” white thespians quickly find themselves sabotaged by myth, confounded by history, and drawn into a hysterical roast of the politics of entertainment and well-meaning political correctness alike. The American origin story is in the comedy-crosshairs In Larissa FastHorse’s groundbreaking satire.

“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

ADVISORY: This biting satire contains mature themes and mild adult language about America’s sometimes troubling history. It also contains Thanksgiving reenactments depicting violence.

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104 Cheney Road Dorset Vermont 05251