Jamie Sarkonak: How Regina students ended up watching a raunchy breasts out drag show

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Jamie Sarkonak: The Regina theatre that put on a bawdy LandBack play for students

A Western Canadian law firm sponsored the production, which featured a raunchy, breasts-out rendition of Queen Elizabeth II

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The Regina school that sent its students to a LandBack smut-on-stage “courtroom comedy” earlier this week quickly realized its mistake. It had a good excuse, at least: in a letter to parents after the fact, it explained that the performing arts theatre had indicated that the production was age-appropriate. Indeed, the theatre’s website does not mention the part where a drag queen plays a gyrating, rump-thrusting, boob-jiggling version of Queen Elizabeth II in an underbust corset.

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But what about the law firm that sponsored the performance in the first place? It had to know where its money was going. Why this?

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