Sep 29 2021
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Oct 31 2021
The Thanksgiving Play

The Thanksgiving Play

Presented by Olney Theatre Center at Olney Theatre Center

The country’s most-produced comedy of 2019 arrives in the DMV courtesy of Olney Theatre Center to open our 2021-22 season! This hilarious sendup of “white wokeness” features an undaunted theatre teacher desperately trying to create a culturally sensitive play celebrating Thanksgiving: one that challenges stereotypes, meets all the requirements of a Native American Heritage Month grant, and pacifies the parents. Larissa FastHorse’s groundbreaking satire on the politics of representation throws together the overly-ambitious drama teacher, her yoga-bro actor friend, a history teacher with playwriting aspirations, and an “ethnically-ambiguous” L.A. actress to devise their Thanksgiving play, only to find themselves quickly sabotaged by myth, confounded by history, and drawn into a hysterical project of dramatic pretzel-twisting.

Admission Info

Tickets start at $54

Phone: 301-924-3400

Email: boxofficesupervisor@olneytheatre.org

Dates & Times

2021/09/29 - 2021/10/31

Location Info

Olney Theatre Center

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd, Olney, MD 20832

Parking Info

Free on-site parking lot