"The Thanksgiving Play": A Bold and Hilarious Take on Holiday History.

"The Thanksgiving Play" by Larissa FastHorse is a comedy of performative wokeness that satirizes American mythmaking. The play is set in a rehearsal room where a holiday pageant for elementary school students is being rehearsed, meant to "lift up" the Native American point of view despite including no Native Americans. The play delivers a brutal satire about mythmaking and the stories we create that can do almost as much harm as the false histories they purport to commemorate. The play is a hilarious envelope in which the author delivers a brutal satire about mythmaking, and thus, in a way, about theater itself.