Where the Blood Mixes

By Kevin Loring

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Floyd is a man who has lost everyone he holds most dear. Now after more than two decades, his daughter Christine returns home to confront her father. Set during the salmon run, Where the Blood Mixes takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People.

 

In 2009 Where the Blood Mixes’ playwright Kevin Loring won the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script; the Sydney J. Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright; and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.

Production History

2008 – Savage Society, The Vancouver Playhouse and Western Canada Theatre

– Workshop Development Tour February, 2008
– Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops), Charles Bailey Theatre (Trail, BC), Lytton Memorial Hall (Lytton, BC)
Actors: Tantoo Cardinal, Quelemia Sparrow, Ben Cardinal, Billy Merasty, David Ross
Composer/Musician: Jason Burnstick
Designers: Rob Lewis, Jamie Nesbitt, Carl Stromquist, Patricia Smith, Itai Erdal
Director: Glynis Leyshon

 

2008 – Savage Society, Vancouver Playhouse, Western Canada Theatre and the Luminato Festival

Kay Meek Theatre, Western Canada Theatre, Preview performances
World Premiere – Luminato Festival, Toronto, June, 2008, Factory Theatre
BC Premiere – The Roundhouse, Magnetic North Festival (opening June 11, 2008 coincided with apology from Stephen Harper) Link To Video
Actors: Ben Cardinal, Margo Kane, Tom McBeath, Billy Merasty, Quelemia Sparrow,
Composer/Musician: Jason Burnstick
Designers: Rob Lewis, Jamie Nesbitt, Carl Stromquist, Patricia Smith, Itai Erdal
Director: Glynis Leyshon

 

2010 – Savage Society and the Vancouver Playhouse in partnership with the Belfry Theatre and National Arts Centre

National Tour – Victoria (Belfry Theatre), Vancouver (Firehall Arts Centre), Winnipeg (Prairie Theatre Exchange), Toronto (Factory Theatre), Ottawa (National Arts Centre)
Actors: Ben Cardinal, Margo Kane, Tom McBeath, Billy Merasty, Kim Harvey
Composer/Musician: Jason Burnstick
Designers: Rob Lewis, Jamie Nesbitt, Carl Stromquist, Patricia Smith, Itai Erdal
Director: Glynis Leyshon

 

2012 – Savage Society and Gwaandak Theatre

Whitehorse, Staged Reading, in partnership with Gwaandak Theatre
Actors: Sam Bob, Margo Kane, Tom McBeath, Billy Merasty, Kim Harvey
Composer/Musician: Jason Burnstick

 

Additional productions:
Theatre Network (Edmonton), Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops), Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton), Saskatoon Native Theatre, Teesri Dunya (Montreal), Theatre North West (Prince George), National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre (Ottawa)