Seeking Performers for "The Thanksgiving" Play
The company is holding auditions for "The Thanksgiving Play" and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: The Thanksgiving Play: Where good intentions collide with absurd assumptions. 2020 MacArthur Fellow playwright, Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation), expertly balances societal critique, true-to-life comedy, and a lesson on performative activism in this wickedly funny play. The satirical comedy centers around a group of four well-meaning (but self-involved) theater artists. Their mission is to devise a politically correct play about the First Thanksgiving. Cultural sensitivity is their utmost priority with only one problem ... all of them are white. Follow these artists as they muddle through the playwrighting process despite the lack of Native representation. The Thanksgiving Play takes some surprising turns and features live vignettes of school children participating in traditional seasonal activities. Please apply if interested.
5 roles
The high school drama teacher that’s always pushing the envelope and doing too much. Earnest about theatre and proving herself. Is producing this play as a desperate attempt to save her job.
Actor/yoga practitioner, Logan’s boyfriend, politically correct to a fault. He’s the confident guy that everyone loves, but his overly logical PC thinking takes weird turns.
Brunette white/white-passing with looks that would’ve been cast as “ethnic” in 1950s movies. Without guile. Sexy and compelling, but not at all intellectual. She is simple in a way that is often comical, and occasionally profound.
The earnest and hard-working academic. He is an awkward elementary school history teacher with dramatic aspirations but no experience.
The company will portray school children performing Thanksgiving songs, giving Thanksgiving reports, singing in a Punk Band, etc ... These vignettes are interspersed throughout the show. The rehearsal requirement for these roles will be substantial, but less than the four primary characters.
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