Beagan

Schanno left Larson and harbormaster Jack Beagan and headed back to the Land Cruiser.

PURGATORY RIDGE WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2001

Livesay once described her friend as "willful and wayward," and Beagan has conceived of her as a confident masculine type, strutting about in trousers and tie, guzzling booze and chain-smoking.

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Tara Beagan, whose previous works include the Dora-winning

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Martin Morrow 2011

Tara Beagan, whose previous works include the Dora-winning

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Martin Morrow 2011

These, however, are minor details in Beagan's murky memory play.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Martin Morrow 2011

Livesay once described her friend as "willful and wayward," and Beagan has conceived of her as a confident masculine type, strutting about in trousers and tie, guzzling booze and chain-smoking.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Martin Morrow 2011

These, however, are minor details in Beagan's murky memory play.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Martin Morrow 2011

(Beagan's mother doesn't remember the specific films she saw on these trips, but the timing fits.) "My mom's grandchildren - my niece and nephew - sit in any section they want, in any theatre they want," Beagan wrote.

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In a recent article she penned for the Praxis Theatre blog, Beagan imagined her mother on a field trip from the Kamloops Indian Residential School in 1953 watching Disney's cartoon version of

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To Beagan, Peter Pan's casual equation of "Indians" with imaginary Neverland creatures such as mermaids was part of a larger racist British mindset that didn't see native North Americans as a real people who existed in the present.

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