THE STAVES WRITE ORIGINAL SONG FOR NEW THEATRICAL PRODUCTION BLOOD HARMONY - OPENING AT THE LOWRY

Thursday 10 – Saturday 18 June 2022

A powerful new play about love, loss and legacy and featuring music by folk trio The Staves is premiering at The Lowry next month ahead of an August run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Blood Harmony shares the story of a fractured trio of sisters, pulled back together with news that turns their worlds upside down. 

Tensions from the past and worries about the future leave them feeling paralysed. When it feels like your world has come to a stop, how do you find a way to keep moving forward?

Indie folk trio, The Staves, are famous for their soulful harmonies. The band of three sisters wrote their most recent album, Good Woman, following the loss of their mother. Music by The Staves will be woven through the show with exclusive new arrangements by Kate Marlais sung live by the talented cast. The band have also created an original song exclusively for this unique production.

The full cast for Blood Harmony are Eve de Leon Allen (The House With Chicken Legs – HOME Manchester/Les Enfants Terribles, Indecent Proposal – Southwark Playhouse) as Chloe, Keshini Misha (The House With Chicken Legs – Les Enfants Terribles, The Country Girls – Chichester Theatre) as Maia, and Philippa Hogg (Peter Pan – National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic, Offie Award-winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Southwark Playhouse) as Anna.

This is a powerful new play by award-winning theatre company, ThickSkin building on their successful partnership with the Lawrence Batley Theatre and is written by Matthew Bulgo, co-directed by Jonnie Riordan and Jess Williams, composed by The Staves, with musical direction and arrangements by Kate Marlais, design by Hayley Grindle, sound design by Lee Affen, and lighting design by Charly Dunford. The team deliver ThickSkin’s trademark physicality and cinematic style in this stunning new production.

Blood Harmony is a new co-production with Watford Palace Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre, supported by The Lowry.

It will run at The Lowry from Thursday 10 to Friday 18 June before touring to The Dukes, Lancaster and the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, before playing The Traverse in Edinburgh from 2 – 28 August. The show will then go on tour in 2023.

For more information please visit https://thelowry.com/whats-on/blood-harmony-2/