August 25-29 @ 7:30 pm

August 29 & 30 @ 2:00 pm

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A World Premiere

Produced by the playwright and collaborators

a Playwrights Theatre Centre Company Collaboration

in association with Neworld Theatre

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A fantastical work of trans autofiction by Governor General’s Award nominee Christina Cook, Postcards traces a lineage of women through time travel, live music, and epistolary narrative.

 

Featuring Rae Takei, Alia Rusu-Tahir, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, and Christina Cook

 

Sound Design & Musician: Hayley Sullivan                                                      Composer & Consulting Sound Designer: Sara Vickruck

Choreography: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg                                                                                                         Costume Design: Mel Zaini

Lighting Design: Victoria Bell                                                                                                            Puppets, Props, and Puppetry: Sarah Finn

Set Design & Technical Direction: Jamie Sweeney                                                                                   Stage Management: Jillian Perry

Dramaturgy & Co-Direction: Joanna Garfinkel                                                                                       Consulting Producer: Scott Button

Producer: Mateusz West

 

Meet Spiling, a PhD student who sends postcards to her dead grandmother to distract herself from her never-ending studies—only to receive replies that change absolutely everything.

 

Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS), Ages 0-119, invites you to be part of a transformational storytelling experience. In this tender, whimsical, non-linear work of autobiography and fantasy, it turns out higher education isn’t that much fun when you have to fight to be recognized for who you are. Easier to have a conversation with your dead grandmother, even if it means leaving your (very much alive) mother on read.

 

Playwright Christina Cook (Governor General’s Award nominee) takes us on a journey across time and space, showing that love—for family, for our past and future selves—can be sent care of (C/O) the present. A funny, heartfelt meditation on connection and trans joy, complete with live music and a homemade robot.