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The Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New Comedy of White Wokeness

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Thanksgiving Play

The play is about four people who, let's say, present as white trying to put on a play about the first Thanksgiving. Larissa: "I definitely have updated a lot for the times" The laws in Florida state that if something causes guilt, discomfort or anguish based on your race it can't be taught in a school and you will see those words in the play If you come to it.

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