Grey Rung - Thanksgiving Play Scenic Design

Larissa FastHorse's satirical comedy, The Thanksgiving Play, centers on four well-meaning but culturally clueless white teaching artists attempting to devise a politically correct Thanksgiving pageant for elementary students. The project immediately spirals into "performative wokeness." The play expertly skewers white liberal guilt, the pitfalls of political correctness, and the impossibility of disentangling the idealized myth of Thanksgiving from the reality of colonial violence, ultimately highlighting the critical absence of Indigenous voices in American storytelling. Grey Rung’s scenic design realistically captured the cluttered charm of an elementary drama classroom, serving as the literal and figurative backdrop for the play's escalating absurdity.