Co-Created by Josh Languedoc & Neil Kuefler
PLAY SYNOPSIS
Tensions are high. The fur trade is collapsing, settlers are encroaching into the territories of the First Nations, and the newly founded Canadian government is attempting to define itself through law and order. Tribes are suffering from scarcity of food, destroyed hunting grounds, starvation, and the ever-burdensome whiskey.
Civil Blood: A Treaty Story explores the complex tensions between First Nations and the European Settlers at the end of the fur trade. Among tension and treaties, two star-crossed lovers, two young people: a Nehiyaw huntress and a French scholar discover a passion for one another. Through the mounting unrest that surrounds them, they seek their own bountiful unity.
Josh Languedoc weaves the texts of Romeo and Juliet, Treaty #6, and his own learnings of traditional stories into a reimagined contemporary tale. We invite the audience to see the present truth by discovering our collective past.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM (2023)
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright and Co-Creator: Josh Languedoc
Co-Creator and Co-Director: Neil Bye-Kuefler
Co-Director: Mark Vetsch
Stage Manager: Andrea Murphy
Producer: Monica Gate
CAST
Governor Sampson: Ian Leung
Lily: Dayna Lea Hoffmann
Father Gabriel: David Woroner
Kahkasis: Sheldon Stockdale
Mrs. Sampson: Danielle LaRose
Takah: Kale Patenaude
Pauline: Ivy DeGagne
Waciy: Ron Moon Walker
Ekah: Demaris Moon Walker
Julian: Gavin Dyer
Kahkasis: Sheldon Stockdale
Astekamaw: Rikki Lyn-Ward
Thou Art Here Theatre engages under the terms of the INDIE 2.2, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Play reading at Flying Canoe Volant & Rubaboo Arts Festival 2022
Play reading at Common Ground Arts’ Found Festival 2021
Staged reading at Theatre Network’s Nextfest 2019
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM (Rubaboo & Flying Canoe Volant 2022)
Vance Avery, Brett Dahl, Ivy Degagne, Dayna Lea Hoffmann, Jacob Holloway, Tammy Lamouche, Monica Maddaford, Doug Mertz*, Demaris Moonwalker, Bryce Morin, Kale Patenaude, Mark Vetsch
*The participation of these Artists is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy (DOT).
Special thanks to Christine Frederick and the team at Rubaboo Festival for all their support of the project.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM (Foundfest 2021)
Skylar Campbell, Hunter Cardinal, Brett Dahl, Penny Gullion, Dayna Lea Hoffman, Neil Kuefler, Josh Languedoc, Monica Maddaford, Doug Mertz, Christina Nguyen, Colby Stockdale, Sheldon Stockdale, Luc Tellier, Mark Vetsch, Demaris Walker.
*This is a Canadian Actors’ Equity Association production under the Festival Policy.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM (Nextfest 2019)
Braden Price, Mac Ireland, Emma Wilmott, Amro Ahmed, Miko Pelletier, Josh Languedoc, Alyson Dicey, Mark Vetsch, Candice Stollery, Jordan Campion, Tierra Weselake, Mahalia Jamerson, ph(Lin) Hackborn, Sam Jeffery, Kaeley Wiebe, Philip Geller, Zachary Strom, Abigail LaForest, Michelle Robb, Dylan Thomas, and Lili Brunschko.
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
The students in the Advanced Acting Class at Victoria School of the Arts in March 2021 including Amanda Bertrand, Emily Brinco, Gracie Carlaw, Stephen Domshy, Zoey Ekstrom, Summer Fraleigh, Lily Gidych, Morgan Johnson, Carys Jones, Harmela Kassa, Dalianna Melgar, Ashauria Ogonoski, Seun Olupinyo, Mercades Quaife, Camryn Rennie, Lucia Rodriguez-Cavanagh, Gina Santos, Marena Scharle, Megan Strong, Sydney Wright, Selina Yukselir, Taj Zachow.
