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Playwright Tomson Highway focuses on the lighter side of death in his musical one-woman show about a supernatural postmistress
By: Randall King
| Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Apr. 5, 2021
‘I’m probably the silliest man you’ve ever met in your life,” says Tomson Highway, kicking off a phone interview from his home in Gatineau, Que.
‘I’m probably the silliest man you’ve ever met in your life," says Tomson Highway, kicking off a phone interview from his home in Gatineau, Que.
The subject comes up immediately because the 69-year-old Cree playwright from Brochet — about 350 kilometres north of Flin Flon — wants it known he does like a good laugh. And these days, laughter is a valuable commodity.