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\"lily_sutherland_headshot\"<\/a>Beginagame, <\/i>which plays at the Tarragon Theatre Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, is a work that I\u2019m sure began with the best of intentions, but has spiralled into absurd levels of awkward and painful, as an unintentional dramatization of what white privilege looks like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beginagame <\/i>literally turns the statistics of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women into a awful game show, with a host that makes the most annoying adult on a CBC Kids Show look like Johnny Carson, who is supposedly leading a white woman through her subconscious as she comes to terms with her own guilt about a murder of an Aboriginal woman she witnessed when she was seven. Yet, even as a theatrical construct, the game show doesn\u2019t at all resemble someone\u2019s subconscious (unless they\u2019re on a bad acid trip) and, most horrifying of all, the murdered Aboriginal woman is only referred to by all the white characters in the most objectified terms- even when they are trying to make the argument that murdering Aboriginal women is wrong, it\u2019s completely de-personalized in a way that they might as well we talking about how it\u2019s wrong to kill bears or it\u2019s wrong to tear down heritage buildings. This is not at all her story, it\u2019s the story of an abused seven year old white girl living with her guilt at the expense of a murdered Aboriginal woman, all turned into a joke and, ultimately, a train wreck.<\/span><\/p>\n

TWISI FRINGE RATING:<\/p>\n

\"5_Star_Rating_System_0_and_half_star\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Beginagame<\/em> plays at the Tarragon Theatre Extra Space (30 Bridgman Avenue) as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival<\/a> at the following times:<\/strong><\/p>\n

show times<\/strong>
\nJuly 09 at 03:30 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong>
\nJuly 10 at 11:30 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong>
\nJuly 12 at 07:30 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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