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Like a laugh out loud so much that its gonna add minutes to your life comedy.
(Youre welcome.)
Like us, they are deeply flawed and fighting for things with a ferocity that is beautiful and tragic.
It seems like my theme this week is going to begood intentions.
FastHorse may have had them, butThe Thanksgiving Playis neither funny nor humane.
Not beauty, not tragedy, not comedy, barely even personality.
Hes just a good old-fashioned nerd.
Shes such a self-immolating stressball that how shes ever made it through directing a show is a mystery.
Oh, and shes also a vegan, because why not go for the low-hanging vegetables.
Keller is basically doing something that lands between early Keanu Reeves and Hansel fromZoolander.
Do you know how hard it is for a straight white male to feel less than in this world?
I dont know that Ive ever truly felt it in my life.
Iwrote recentlyabout the difficulty of satire that hasnt located its heart.
They possess so little capacity for real self-awareness that the play ends up having nowhere to go.
Were they lying around the theater-classroom props closet?)
So I set myself the challenge of writing a completely castable play, she toldthe Interval.
Im not even sure how to parse whats between the em-dashes there.
IfThe Thanksgiving Plays charactersdontsee themselves as white, why is the entire play a dance around their white guilt?
Why dont they ever speak about themselves and their own sense of identity?
But it has made that point by the time you get through reading the plays marketing blurb.
The Thanksgiving Playis at Playwrights Horizons through November 25.
