Cancel culture racism ironically cancels an anti-‘White’, anti-Residential school propaganda play:
“A second play in Victoria has been cancelled after complaints that it puts too much focus on the voices of’ oppressors’. “Sisters”, written by playwright Wendy Lill and staged by ‘Theatre Inconnu’, explores residential-school abuse and was supposed to run until March 9.
“But it was abruptly cancelled Wednesday by the Fernwood Community Association, which operates the building that houses the theatre, with five scheduled performances left. Board members of the association did not respond to a call for comment on Thursday.
“The story centres around a young nun who is transformed from caring to abusive through the influence of the system and her fellow worker, according to the theatre’s website.
“‘Theatre Inconnu’s Instagram posts about the production have been flooded with comments criticizing the play, claiming it portrays the nun as a victim of the residential-school system, instead of focusing on the experiences of ‘Indigenous’ {sic, Aboriginal} children who were forced {They were not!} to attend the schools.
“To centre these voices when the violence of colonialism {modernity} and residential schools is ongoing? This is shameful and embarrassing”,
one person commented…
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“Kevin McKendrick, who was directing ‘Sisters’ for Theatre Inconnu, said it’s clear that those criticizing the play have not seen it. There are no ‘Indigenous’ voices in the play because the playwright, a ‘white’ woman {How ‘white’ is she?}, specifically wanted ‘white’ people to be aware of what ‘white’ society {There is no such thing} had done to the ‘Indigenous’ community, he said, adding it was never meant to be about the ‘Indigenous’ experience of the residential-school system.
{So, the playwright is a racist?}
“Instead, it was intended to show the evil that ordinary people are capable of, McKendrick said. The characters are not sympathetic, but human, he said. “That’s why the play is so moving, because you realize anybody could be a monster.”
“If the play depicted the central character, Sister Mary, as someone with evil intentions from the beginning, audiences could absolve themselves of responsibility, McKendrick said. But seeing the naive 17-year-old who first comes to the school transformed into an oppressive nun who punishes ‘Indigenous’ children helps to further understanding of how the school system operated.
{But it operated this way for ALL students, not just Aboriginal ones, and some of the staff were Aboriginal, so why the racism?}
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“Jennifer Bayne, the actress who plays Sister Mary, said the play shows the damage ‘white’ settlers inflicted through the residential-school system.
{So-called ‘white’ settlers did not set up the Residential schools. The churches did.}
“This is not about letting us off the hook”, said Bayne, who noted that cast members found out that the Wednesday-evening performance had been cancelled around 2 p.m. the same day.
“Jeremy Sinclair, another cast member, said his empathy for ‘survivors’ {The contrived pejorative for ‘former students’} of residential schools has only grown through his work on the play. “It makes me really see the evils that were done”, he said.
“The cast spent months reading about and discussing the devastating impacts of residential schools {Teaching children to read and write}, which broadened his worldview and inspired him to take a more active role in reconciliation, he said.
“Perhaps audiences could have had a similar learning experience. Alas, another opportunity for growth is lost when we censor art out of fear”,
Sinclair said.
“Playwright Lill said in a statement that she was trying to examine “the culture, infrastructure and values of the society” that created the residential-school system and to expose the “daily internal workings of the ‘cultural genocide’ brought about by residential schools”.
“Based on the theatre’s description of the play, she felt the producers understood her intention when she wrote ‘Sisters’ 35 years ago. “To pose the question: How did a nun who started out thinking she was doing good work end up a monster destroying lives?”
“Lill, a former NDP Member of Parliament {Of course…}, has received four nominations for Governor General’s Awards for her plays.
“‘Sisters’ received the Labatt’s Canadian Play Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival, and her TV adaptation of the play won a Gemini Award in 1992.”
–‘Residential-school play cancelled after complaints playwright is white’,
Roxanne Egan-Elliott, Victoria Times-Colonist, Mar.8, 2024
See also:
‘Cultural Bullying’ (Theatre – ‘Kanata’) {July 24, 2018}:
“‘Kanata’ tells the story of relations between ‘indigenous’ and non-‘indigenous’ people in Canada. ‘Indigenous’ artists and activists wrote an open letter, saying they worried the production would not ‘properly handle’ {‘present a one-sided version of’} topics such as missing and murdered ‘indigenous’ women, and residential schools…”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2018/07/24/cultural-bullying/
‘Controlling the Narrative?’ (Film ‘Protocols’) {Dec.17, 2019}:
“New Rule: No Race can tell a story about any other Race. You can only tell your own Race’s story… Really?
“Are you the ‘right person’ to tell this story? That’s what the organizers of the ‘Dead North Film Festival’ want filmmakers to ask themselves when they’re submitting movies that include ‘Indigenous’ {sic, they mean ‘aboriginal’, and aboriginals are NOT ‘Indigenous’ to North America} stories, culture or language…”
https://saynotosegregationblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/17/controlling-the-narrative/
‘You Can’t Draw That!’ (Papal Cartoon) {Apr.23, 2022}:
“‘First Nations’ leaders in southern Ontario say the media has to do better at reconciliation after a newspaper ran an ‘offensive’ cartoon depicting ‘Indigenous’ people asking the Pope for financial compensation…”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2022/04/23/you-cant-draw-that/
‘Aboriginal Sensitivity Censors’ {April 17, 2018}:
“I really advocate that publishers just not publish non-Native writers [writing Native stories] until the reading public of the U.S. and Canada has a firm understanding of ‘indigenous’ histories.”
https://endracebasedlawcanadanews.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/aboriginal-sensitivity-censors/
‘An Issue of Freedom of Speech‘ (Aboriginal Issues) {Feb.20, 2021}:
“At any given moment there is a sort of self-prevailing orthodoxy, a tacit agreement not to discuss some large and uncomfortable fact.”
– George Orwell
“The Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal establishments, for their own sometimes-selfish purposes — contrary to one of the most fundamental values of democracy: free and open debate on important public issues — have in effect declared a ban on free speech around this profound human rights issue…”
https://canadiansforlegalequality.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/an-issue-of-freedom-of-speech/
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