Canadarsquo;s most famous Aboriginal playwright; Tomson Highway; sets his latest theatrical achievement; The (Post) Mistress; in a not-so-distant past; when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones; and the small-town post office was often the only connection to faraway places longed-for or imagined.Born and raised in Lovely; Ontario; a small French-Canadian farming village near Lake Huron; Marie-Louise Painchaud has never had occasion to venture much farther than the nearest community – Complexity; a copper-mining town and a somewhat larger dot on the map of the Georgia Bay area. For thirty years; Marie-Louise has worked at the local post office; and; through the many letters she sorts when they arrive and the ones that she stamps before they go out; she has come to know the lives of everyone in town and vicariously experience their various loves; losses; and personal dramas.In this one-woman musical tour de force; Marie-Louise confides in us the interwoven stories sealed in the envelopes she handles every day. A samba beat offers the soundtrack for the tale of a local womanrsquo;s passion- ate but doomed affair with a man from Rio de Janeiro; a rhythmic tango plays as Marie-Louise divulges a friendrsquo;s steamy tryst in Argentina. All together; twelve unique musical pieces; ranging from Berlin cabaret to French cafeacute; chanson to smooth bossa nova; accompany a multilingual French; Cree; and English libretto.In The (Post) Mistress; Tomson Highway creates not only a rural comedy but also a sublime parody of small-town life – the northern Ontario version of Thornton Wilderrsquo;s Our Town or Stephen Leacockrsquo;s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
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