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Video: First Look At Steppenwolf Theatre's Chicago Premiere of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
May 10, 2024
Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 48th season with the Chicago premiere of Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play, a biting comedy about everything right, wrong and woke in America, directed by Jess McLeod. Get a glimpse inside the production with the new video clip!
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What is that
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What's what? Is that soy cheese or is that coagulated cheese squeezed from a cow? Coagulated
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You know that I'm a vegan ally. I've just come to realize that I like cheese on my crackers
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I already struggle with the holiday of death. Well, if you're planning on the holiday of death as the title of our Thanksgiving play, you'll lose your job for sure
0:26
This is far more than a Thanksgiving play now. I got the Race and Gender Equity in History Grant, the Excellence in Educational Theatre Fellowship
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a Municipal Arts Grant, and the Go Girls Scholastic Leadership Mentorship. I know parents. To get them back on your side, you need to kill a turkey
0:46
I am a vegan. You're a teaching artist with a 300-parent petition to fire you
0:53
I am staying in the positive. This kind of talk isn't helping. Okay
0:59
Sending you nothing but light. Thank you. I have a surprise, too
1:07
I also got that Native American Heritage Month Awareness Through Art Grant. Really
1:13
Yes. And they gave me funding so I could hire a professional actor
1:17
Oh, finally! Thank you. And I was able to bring the perfect one to town. She elevates the whole project
1:23
She? Professional actor? Right here? Are you, technically? I mean, you volunteer for these school plays
1:32
But I get paid for that show at the farmer's market. Yeah, but you do it on a street corner and get paid in a coffee can. Exactly
1:40
Jackson, I value your work. I really do. But this woman is from Los Angeles
1:50
Here we go with Los Angeles again. It's not the center of the acting world
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It kind of is. The commercial acting world. Be grateful you didn't make it there
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It shows what kind of person you are. The kind of person who isn't beautiful enough or sexy enough to compete
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Don't let your head go there, Logan. Just wait until you see this actor. She's so beautiful
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Beautiful. Cheekbones like glass. Just so L.A. What is beauty? A social construct
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That we don't believe in. We value talent and art, not looks
2:32
You were a talented actress. Even better. I am a director now
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But I still let my past in L.A. color my present, don't I
2:43
You can't reach new lands until you let go of the shore
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Or in this case, return to old lands, but as a more enlightened person
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because of the journey to the other land that was new, but now is old
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and it needs to be let go of. Exactly. I think I can be a mentor to this woman
3:04
Help her recover from the false value placed on her sexuality because I have taken that journey
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Show her how much more she can be. Thank you for that self-awareness
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You are one of the most self-aware people I know. Since knowing you
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I just do my best and I hope to Buddha that my karma makes up for the rest of it
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