| 词条 | Berend McKenzie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Berend McKenzie is a Canadian actor and playwright. As an actor he is most known for playing Lance in the 2004 film, Catwoman. As a playwright Berend is most known for his controversial play, Nggrfg (Nigger fag, subtitled, Would You Say the Name of This Play?). BiographyBerend is of African descent. He was adopted by a Caucasian family; growing up in Alberta. There he found little support for being homosexual due his family's Christian beliefs. He also found it hard to be a gay black male in Alberta, often being called the slurs, "nigger" and "fag"; this subsequently inspired his play, Nggrfg, an exploration of the two words that he was called the most growing up. After being caught in a "drunken grope-fest" with another boy at a party, his student council asked him to leave school as they feared he "wouldn't be safe." McKenzie fled both home and school shortly after.[1] Career and success of "Nggrfg"Berend made his film debut in the 2002 movie, Life or Something Like It in a small role alongside Angelina Jolie. As a film actor, Berend is most known for playing the role of sassy art department representative, Lance in the 2004 action superhero film, Catwoman alongside Alex Borstein and Halle Berry. In 2010 McKenzie debuted at the Edmonton Fringe Festival with his play, Nggrfg, an autobiographical play regarding the two most used slurs he heard growing up in Alberta, Canada. Nggrfg is set up as four stories told by McKenzie about growing up black and gay in Alberta, with little tolerance for each by his peers.[2][3][4] The play earned a Jessie Award nomination for Original Script and was also run at Halifax's Queer Acts Theatre Festival. An adaptation of the play entitled, Tassels, was also made in order to portray an appropriate storyline for elementary and middle schools.[5] Film
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyxtra.com/saying-harmful-words-5610|title=Saying harmful words|date=16 November 2011|publisher=}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/naming-nggrfg/Content?oid=1726338|title=Naming nggrfg|first=Michael|last=Fraiman|website=The Coast Halifax}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://ministerfaust.blogspot.com/2009/08/tonight-on-terrordome-political-theatre.html|title=TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Political Theatre at the E-Town International Fringe|publisher=}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://nowtoronto.com/stage/theatre/would-you-say-the-name-of-this-play-nggrfg/|title=Would You Say The Name of This Play? (nggrfg)|first=Jon|last=Kaplan|date=30 November 2011|publisher=}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://this.org/2011/01/11/nggrfg-berend-mckenzie/|title=THIS → Interview: Berend McKenzie confronts the language of hate with "nggrfg"|website=this.org}} External links
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