Where the Blood Mixes explores the ongoing effects of residential schools on the survivors and celebrates their resilience.Floyd is a victim of the residential scholl system along with his other friends. His adult daughter who was taken away from him after her mother committed suicide has come to meet him and reconnect to her heritage.
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strong scenes between middle-aged Indigenous men
2008, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver
2009
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Recipient 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Started as solo show at Studio 58. Winner 2009 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script. Winner 2009 Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original
Recipient 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Started as solo show at Studio 58. Winner 2009 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script. Winner 2009 Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original
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At the dawn of the Arab Spring in an ancient Jordanian town, an Iraq War veteran struggles to overcome the traumas of combat by taking on an entirely new and unexpected career: an action-film hero. At the same time, halfway around the world in a cozy North Philadelphia kitchen, his cousin takes on a heroic new role of her own: as the heart and soul of her crumbling community, providing hot meals and an open door for the needy.
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" Description Back home in Philadelphia, Elliot Ortiz, a nineteen-year-old Marine, contemplates his return to Iraq for a second tour of duty after being seriously wounded. In this simple, poignant and achingly evocative play” (TimeOut New York), three Ortiz family members recount years of service to their country in wars in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, and the effects their service has had on the individual, the family and the community they live in. Melding a poetic dreamscape with a stream-of-consciousness narrative, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue takes us on an unforgettable journey across time and generations." - from the publisher
