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My North: 2 Traverse City Nonprofits Host Virtual Thanksgiving Play

by | Nov 4, 2020 | News: Grants

Just in time for the holidays, Parallel 45 and the National Writers Series will present a virtual staged reading of “The Thanksgiving Play,” followed by an interview with playwright Larissa FastHorse. The November 17 virtual event begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12, available at MyNorthTickets.

FastHorse is an award-winning writer and member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation. She recently won a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” Her contemporary satire explores our national holiday and asks, “how does one celebrate Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month at the same time?” In FastHorse’s 2015 biting satire, this is the question facing three “woke” white thespians…

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