Announcing the World Premiere of Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS) by Christina Cook

Announcing the World Premiere of Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS), Ages 0-119 by Governor General’s Award nominee Christina Cook!
August 25-29 @ 7:30pm
August 29 & 30 @ 2pm
PAL Studio Theatre
581 Cardero St 8th floor – 300, Vancouver, BC V6G 3J4
Produced by the playwright and collaborators
a PTC Company Collaboration
in association with Neworld Theatre
Featuring Rae Takei, Alia Rusu-Tahir, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Christina Cook.
Live Music: Hayley Sullivan
Composer & Sound Design: Sara Vickruck
Choreography: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Costume Design: Mel Zaini
Lighting Design: Victoria Bell
Live Sceneography: 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.
