Average Family
Two families. One reality TV show. Who will survive three months as an 1840’s frontier family on the Minnesota prairie? Will it be the urbane Roubidouxs from Minneapolis? Or the no-nonsense, live-off-the-land Monroes, from the North Shore? Soon enough, both families find they’ve more to overcome than just the elements. It’s an adventure (all caught on confession cam!) fraught with laughable predicaments and harrowing incidents. And when one family reconnects with their Dakota culture, it leads to startling revelations for all, inspiring the true spirit of generosity.
Bio
Larissa FastHorse is a professor of practice in the Department of English and an affiliate of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at ASU.
Praise for this book
[Larissa FastHorse] smartly uproots many of the stereotypes surrounding American Indians…The playwright is breaking new ground here, and, in the process, establishing new life in theater.
Star Tribune
This play provides commentary on technology’s distancing effect of family members from one another, the importance of sharing cultural traditions from one generation to the next, and how the simplicity of the earth can bring peace and togetherness.
NYU Steinhardt
