Where The Blood Mixes

Run Time: 2hrs

Luminato is proud to present the world premiere of Where the Blood Mixes, by Vancouver-based actor and playwright Kevin Loring. A play about survival and reconciliation, full of humour and shrewd observation, Loring's play is as mythic as it is modern.

Where the Blood Mixes is the story of Floyd, a native man whose daughter was taken into care by social services two decades earlier. Now, as Floyd prepares for a reunion with his child, he must find a way to cope with his guilt - a guilt that is exacerbated by the country's growing awareness of the abuse of First Nations children in the residential school system.

A member of the Nlaka'pmux First Nation in Lytton, B.C., and winner of the 2005 Vancouver Arts Award for Emerging Theatre Artist, Kevin Loring is currently an artist in residence at the Playhouse Theatre Company. Where the Blood Mixes won 2nd place in the 2007 Herman Voeden National Playwriting Competition. Kevin is honoured to share this story of his tiny village in the BC interior with the international audience of Luminato in Toronto.

The Globe & Mail June 2, 2008 - The classes and the damage done

Co-commissioned by Luminato and the Playhouse Theatre Company, Vancouver. Developed in association with The Savage Society and Western Canada Theatre.