#Larissa Fasthorse

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[sapphic-bombshell-vixen]

off to see THE THANKSGIVING PLAY with D'Arcy Carden!♥️.

[dailydarcycarden]

Larissa Fasthorse & D'Arcy Carden

[hayleylovesjessica]

Just saw that D’Arcy Carden has joined the cast of one of the plays my partner and I are seeing in NYC in March, The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa Fasthorse. I’m screaming.

[hollylderr]

Larissa FastHorse on Indigenizing Theatre

Originally published by HowlRound on June 6, 2023. Katie Finneran in The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse at Second Stage Theater. Directed by Rachel Chavkin. Scenic design by Riccardo Hernandez. Costume design by Lux Haac. Lighting design by Jeanette Oui-Suk Yew. Sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman. Video/projection design by David Bengali. Photo by Joan Marcus. This year, Larissa FastHorse…

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[wheresmulder]

Yk the thing about The Thanksgiving Play is that it's literally so fucking good that I never even thought to make the meme that's like:

I saw ttp 19 times for the plot

The plot:

Like it never even occurred to me bc the actual plot was so. damn. good. It's literally my favorite play. Larissa Fasthorse I fucking love your brain gdi

If I even THINK about CORN LMAOOO

Let someone mention a fucking BUS around me

THE ESPN MUSIC??? IM GONE

"I AM A VEGAN ALLY"

BYE

[frontmezzjunkies]

Broadway's Very Funny "The Thanksgiving Play" Arrives Possibly Just Past Its Best-By Date

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #TheThanksgivingPlayBway written by #LarissaFasthorse dir by #RachelChavkin @rachelchavkin w/ #DarcyCarden @DarcyCarden #KatieFinneran #ScottFoley #ChrisSullivan at #HelenHayesTheatre #BroadwayPlay #Broadway @2STNYC #2STNYCBway

Scott Foley and Katie Finneran in Broadway’s THE THANKSGIVING PLAY. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Broadway Theatre Review: The Thanksgiving Play By Ross Truth be told, I am not an American, but a Canadian living in NYC, brought up on the television and film imagery that surrounds the fable that is ‘American Thanksgiving’. It’s a wildly inaccurate formulation, not based on any real history, as we…

[bestmusicalworldcup]

In the latest attempt to rehabilitate an outdated Golden Age musical, the next (non-Equity) national tour of Peter Pan launching next month will feature a newly revised book by Larissa FastHorse.

The new book aims to remove its offensive depiction of Native Americans, revisit the story's treatment of women, and condense the musical from a three-act show to a two-act show.

Notably, Peter Pan will not be played by a woman, as all major productions have done, but by a teenage boy.

[aliveandfullofjoy]

And: top 5 plays of the last 10 years.

oh boy!

again, listed alphabetically (with the caveat that i have so, so, so many blindspots):

choir boy (tarell alvin mccraney) — sort of cheating with this one since it premiered in 2012, but mccraney is just. such a beautifully singular voice.

the christians (lucas hnath) — came into my life at exactly the right time. absolutely love this play, especially because of how deeply uncomfortable it makes me.

heroes of the fourth turning (will arbery) — absolutely fucking haunting in the best way. captures the nauseating feeling of living in the late 2010s so perfectly.

indecent (paula vogel) — this play has just lived under my skin for years. gorgeous interweaving of time and place and artifice and reality.

sweat (lynn nottage) — just airtight storytelling. a grueling, gorgeous distillation of american life.

2020: a going away party play (keyanna khatiblou) — listing as a bonus because i honestly don’t even know if it’s officially been produced yet, but this play still feels like a warm hug. i think it’s magnificent.

honorable mentions: the thanksgiving play (larissa fasthorse); reykjavik (steve yockey); singles in agriculture (abby rosebrock); hot asian doctor husband (leah nanako winkler); lungs (duncan macmillan); the flick (annie baker); the humans (stephen karam)

or something like that!

(i feel like i’m forgetting something???)

[moniquill]

https://forward.com/culture/539242/rachel-chavkin-larissa-fasthorse-broadway-director-the-thanksgiving-play-jewish-native-american/

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I do NOT wanna see D'arcy Carden fans going to see the thanksgiving play and then completely ignoring the actual show when they post about it just bc they like D'arcy Carden. we are not doing this folks, fucking talk about the goddamn themes of Larissa Fasthorse's work or else

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Peter Pan at the Pantages Theatre:

(Unfortunately my picture of the cast board wasn't in focus. But it looked like the main cast was all in, with William Foon and Reed Epley in the roles of John and Michael respectively, with the other John/Michael actors playing Lost Boy roles.)

The show is probably the most clearly targeted to younger children of any that I've seen in the last year (including Mrs. Doubtfire and A Christmas Story). I haven't seen nor thought much about Peter Pan in literally decades, but as a kid I watched a recording of the old TV broadcast with Mary Martin multiple times. The parts I still remembered were most of the lyrics to "I'm Flying," the existence of Captain Hook's tarantella (it's how learned the word "tarantella"), and the scene where Peter Pan asks the audience to clap.

It is probably for the best that I forgot everything else, because after skimming through the video of the 1960 broadcast available online, every scene with Tiger Lily made my eyebrows rise straight up into my hairline. In this production there were changes to the book (made by playwright Larissa Fasthorse) to make those scenes less like blatant tired stereotypes as well as to modernize other parts of the setting and text; on occasion these changes seemed oddly grafted-on, but overall it is probably for the best. As an adult, watching this show was very much an exercise in wrestling nostalgia, with the weird result that during all of Act 1 my brain was telling me, "no, no, this boy who is played by a teenage boy should actually be a middle-aged woman with a pixie cut." There is no significant reason for this other than that's how I was used to seeing it, so if it's the first time a lot of kids are seeing this show, better that it's a version that doesn't have a really lazy, insulting portrayal of indigenous people.

Mildly spoiler-y notes below:

Highlight #1 of the show for me was Cody Garcia as Captain Hook; they were hammy and fun and well-calibrated as a comic villain, and it felt like the show came alive whenever they were in the scene. (I should add Kurt Perry as Smee into that as well.)

Highlight #2 was the main flying-to-Neverland scene, which was a simple but very effective use of background graphics/projections with stage flying effects.

Singing was generally good. Once I got used to the idea of Peter Pan being played by a male actor I thought Nolan Almeida did a pretty good job in the role. Acting overall was a mixed bag with highlights as noted above.

There was an extended Hamlet joke in Act 2 which seemed like it was throwing a bone to the adults in the audience (and frankly I was relieved to have it).

Audience: Not quite full but definitely contained lots of kids. The ones nearby were fairly chatty but I can excuse that for their age. The six-year-old behind me who responded "I love you" out loud after "Hook's Waltz" was 1000% a better audience member than the adult couple nearby who talked to each other and kept checking phones through the entirety of Act 1 (and thankfully left at intermission; I suspect they didn't know what kind of show they bought tickets for).

[dailydarcycarden]

The Thanksgiving Play

[brechtian]

Oh thats all good i knew there was a fair chance you wouldnt recognize it. Im realizing now i may have misrepresented it a bit mentioning the pop culture thing, it just stood out to me as an interesting directorial choice as someone who doesnt know enough abt theatre to easily recognize those? But it wasnt like trying super hard to be current or anything. They did have in-universe tiktoks play during scene changes but the play itself was definitely more about challenging your perceptions of character interactions. It was pretty loud about its focus on feminism in modernity but not in as stare at the camera way as like say the barbie movie was idk. Idk i liked it and would recommend it but im only just getting into theatre

Yeah like I said I don’t think it sounds horrible, and I am really interested in seeing it and deciding how I feel about it! Like, again, I think The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (same woman who wrote the film bodies bodies bodies) is brilliant, so I think it’s possible to have an edgy modern play about a group of high school girls be really really great (I am writing one myself right now, actually lol), it’s just a personal palette thing that I usually have a distaste for pop culture references. Like, the tiktok transitions between scenes wouldn’t generally be my thing, but I think it could work well with the right videos, and that reminds me a bit of Larissa Fasthorse’s The Thanksgiving Play and the way she pulled real & fake internet content to use in transition videos between scenes.