This fall, the Ghent Playhouse stages Larissa FastHorse’s biting satire “The Thanksgiving Play.” A Broadway hit in 2023, the comedy skewers well-meaning attempts at “woke” theater as four white educators try to devise a politically correct Thanksgiving pageant. With no Indigenous collaborators in sight, their brainstorm sessions spiral into absurdity, exposing the hypocrisies and blind spots of cultural representation. FastHorse, the first Native American woman playwright produced on Broadway, balances humor with sharp critique, making “The Thanksgiving Play” both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply unsettling. Ghent’s production offers Hudson Valley audiences a chance to wrestle with this timely, provocative comedy.
