Fantasia ’17 Review: Ted Geoghegan’s harrowing “MOHAWK” explores man-as-monster violence

The art and brilliance of Ted Geoghegan’s poignant, thought-provoking MOHAWK is to realign our perspective on a very specific moment in history—namely, the complex interplay of global, native and American interests during the War of 1812 that wreaked largely forgotten havoc on very real individual lives—from a reductive statistical blip on the arc of history to a visceral, affecting human tragedy.