The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Loopy Horse Do?

The Thanksgiving Play

“Satire doesn’t get a lot richer… A takedown of white American mythology… The acquainted, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Individuals chowing down collectively will get a scrumptious roasting.” —Jesse Inexperienced, New York Instances

“Wryly humorous… Deftly makes factors that want making about illustration and, to borrow a line from Hamilton, the essential matter of ‘who tells your story.’” —Don Aucoin, Boston Globe

A gaggle of well-intentioned white instructing artists scramble to create an bold “woke” Thanksgiving pageant. Regardless of their keen efforts to placed on essentially the most culturally delicate present doable, it shortly turns into clear that even these with good intentions may be undone by their very own blind spots.

What Would Loopy Horse Do?

“A nuanced portrait of reservation life… A scalding cauldron of race and resentment, poverty, and psychological sickness.” —Robert W. Butler, Kansas Metropolis Star

“A well timed meditation on the hazards of nationalism tinged with a tragic irony as seen by way of the filter of a Native American lens.” —Alan Portner, Broadway World

Twins Calvin and Journey, the final two members of the Marahotah tribe, make a suicide pact to finish the Marahotah when the grandfather who raised them dies. Then two white strangers knock on their door and the insular world of the twins is ripped huge open.