Show Run: May 11-16 2021
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Due to COVID-19 and ongoing provincial and national health orders, we have moved to filmed productions for the Spring 2021 Season. We will be broadcasting The (Post) Mistress from May 11 – 16, 2021 through the Belfry ticket site, https://tickets.belfry.bc.ca.
“The (Post) Mistress is about love, love letters and love of life.” – Tomson Highway
Back when life was simple – if life was ever simple – people wrote letters. In the small town of Lovely, Ontario, every letter passes through the hands of postmistress Marie-Louise Painchaud.
Cheeky and cheerful, Marie-Louise delights in living vicariously through the stories shared in letters mailed from all over the world.
Featuring piano and saxophone, the musical stylings evoke these faraway places – samba, bossa nova, tango, Dixieland and Berlin Cabaret rap.
Uplifting, funny and poignant, this one-woman musical by Tomson Highway reminds us that in life, you should never mail it in.
Tomson Highway is a Cree writer and pianist/songwriter from Northern Manitoba. Among many others, his best-known works are the plays The Rez Sisters (Belfry 2014), and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, and the best-selling novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen.
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