'The Thanksgiving Play'

The Thanksgiving Play follows a group of four white theatre artists attempting to devise a culturally sensitive Thanksgiving pageant for Native American Heritage Month. Do they know anything about Native American culture or history? Not a bit. As the characters grapple with issues of political correctness, privilege, and representation, the production exposes the pitfalls of performative activism with humor and biting wit.

The show is being put on in conjunction with SET’s Give Pikes Peak fundraising campaign, which will enable the company to continue providing intimate live theatre to the Pikes Peak region.

Written by Native American playwright Larissa Fasthorse, The Thanksgiving Play is a comedy that both entertains and provokes important questions about how we tell stories—and who gets to tell them. Fasthorse, a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, uses the play to explore the complexities of allyship, appropriation, and the absurdities that arise when we overthink our good intentions.