“The Thanksgiving Play,” written in 2015—and showing its age, given current events—is a skewering of white liberal pieties.
-winning Katie Finneran) and Jaxton at every turn. They are beyond-Granola, earnest and right-on, a real-life couple keen to mount a Thanksgiving play in a school that is thoroughly inclusive and culturally sensitive.
Alicia is Caucasian, and just wants a job. She has no interest in anguishing over identities and intention. Show her the money, attention, and hopefully fame . The actors, well-known variously for their TV and stage work, zip through some of the very funny comic material with breezy precision; the best silent acting on Broadway this season is watching Logan and Jaxton “decouple” and finally “recouple” with a series of coyly suggestive gestures.
Early on, we see Jaxton has his limits, as a “vegan ally” he still likes dairy-sourced cheese on his crackers. Logan is determined to help the gorgeous Alicia “recover from the false value placed on her sexuality because I’ve taken that journey.” Finneran and the others work in double registers with lines like this; they mean them, and we see under the surface that she may be very pissed off to have had her own acting career cut short.
She ends up shouting at Jaxton: “You’re a bad street performer!” Caden, overjoyed to have his words performed, has his flirting with Alicia lightly rewarded with her acceptance of a lift. “Can you also write a play for me?” Alicia asks him, imagining her dream career opportunity with this golden line. “I want to portray a better-known historical feminist woman like Carrie Bradshaw. Or Lara Croft.
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