Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse is taking down white wokeness

Playwright Larissa FastHorse is sorry for ruining your Thanksgiving. “The Thanksgiving Play” has been slated for Tampa’s Jobsite Theater, the Lyric Stage Company of Boston and Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, S.C., among others, making FastHorse the first Native American or indigenous playwright to appear on the list. “They were very much watering things down to a point that I just felt like it wasn’t the right place for me.” Her first play, “Average Family,” about an urban Native American family and a rural white family on a TV reality show set in the 1840s, was commissioned by the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis in 2007. Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse wears a blazer emblazoned with “The Future is Indigenous.” Since then, she’s written and choreographed other plays including the 2008 “Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation,” which revolves around three 14-year-old Lakota teens and was produced by the Autry Museum’s theater company, Native Voices; and the 2017 “What Would Crazy Horse Do,” a dark comedy about the last surviving members of an indigenous tribe who team up with the Ku Klux Klan, staged at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Television How ‘Molly of Denali’ helps Native American children feel seen Native American viewers of PBS’ landmark children’s program “Molly of Denali” describe the series, set in an Alaska Native village, as meaningful beyond words.