‘My Tone Is Indigenous’: Larissa FastHorse on Native Comedy and Storytelling
Her ‘Thanskgiving Play’ is the first play by a Native woman playwright on Broadway, but you can leave your virtue-signaling and tragedy-porn expectations at the door.
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Her ‘Thanskgiving Play’ is the first play by a Native woman playwright on Broadway, but you can leave your virtue-signaling and tragedy-porn expectations at the door.
With her satire of performative wokeness, the Native American writer strives to subtly rewire audiences’ default responses.
Our nation’s Native history is all around us, if we would only pay attention. One place to look: at a rising generation of Native theatremakers.