Where the Blood Mixes Starts Previews Nov. 14
Where the Blood Mixes starts previews at the Firehall Arts Centre this Saturday, November 14, and opens on Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30pm. Kevin Loring wrote and directs it, and the run goes to December 6. It is a serious play, so it asks a little more of an evening than a comedy does.
What you are going to see
The play is set in Lytton, B.C., during the salmon run. Floyd has lost nearly everyone he loves. After more than twenty years, his daughter Christine comes home to confront him. The Firehall describes the production as irreverently funny and brutally honest, and it runs about 1 hour 20 minutes.
Loring is a N'lakap'mux playwright. The script won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script, the Sydney J. Risk Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. Because of the themes, the Firehall has an audience support worker on hand for anyone who needs support during or after the show.
Dates, seats and prices
Previews are on November 14, 15 and 17, with a 1pm preview on November 18, and opening night is that evening at 7:30pm. After that: Tuesday at 7:30pm, Wednesday at 1pm and 7:30pm, Thursday and Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 3pm and 7:30pm, and Sunday at 3pm.
Centre seats are $39, side seats are $32, and student and senior tickets are $30. Tuesday evenings are Twenty Tuesday, with tickets at $20, and the Wednesday 1pm matinee is pay what you can. The Firehall is at 280 East Cordova Street.
A quiet evening around it
This is a play you will want to talk about afterwards, so leave room for that. Chinatown is a few blocks away. Kissa Tanto on East Pender suits dinner before, and The Keefer Bar or Bagheera suits a drink and a long conversation after.
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