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Hey, this is The Takeaway. I'm Jay Cowitt in from Melissa Harris-Berry.

In The Thanksgiving Play, four white protagonists sit down to create a politically correct

and historically accurate Thanksgiving play for a local elementary school.

What could go wrong, right?

Well, the play explores the complicated and oftentimes failing relationship between

allyship and performative wokeness.

I'm Larissa Fast Horace, and I'm the playwright for the Thanksgiving play and a member of

the Tsuchangu Lakota Nation.

Larissa Fast Horse is one of the very first indigenous women to have a play produced on

Broadway. She joined the

takeaway to talk about her Broadway debut, navigating theater spaces as an indigenous playwright,

and the complex failures of, quote, well-meaning white people. Larissa, thank you so much for coming on.

I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks, Jay. So first of all, the plays opening up today on

Broadway. How are you feeling about it? I am really excited. I'm thrilled to have this play

launching into the world, but it's always bittersweet for playwright because the day after opening,

I head off to my next show. So the exciting berth and launching of the play is also the last time I see it.

So it's a little sad also.

For those not familiar with the show, it revolves around four white characters who are trying their very hardest to put on a Thanksgiving play, a Thanksgiving story, trying their hardest to do it right by what they think are the interest of indigenous people

or native people. They fail quite a bit throughout the play. I'm interested where you got the

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