POSTMARK IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON RE-ESTABLISHING
OUR THEATRE PRODUCTIONS FOR 2023
IF INTERESTED IN JOINING THE CREW PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO
postmarklafollette@gmail.com
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID JULY 2021
We are pleased to announce our new original script!
SOUTHBOUND, a Comedy by Tony Branam
We begin our story in Ohio as a LaFollette family plans a vacation home
and end up in a less than typical visit to a funeral home amid family skeletons and surprising revelations....
AUDITIONS
July 24th 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
July 25th from 2 to 6 p.m.
CALLBACKS BY INVITATION July 26th. 2021
REHEARSALS begin July 30th, 2021
OPENING NIGHT October 1st, 2021!
Performances October 1, 2 & 3 and October 8, 9 & 10
Friday and Saturday Performances at 7 p.m.
Sunday Matinee's at 2 p.m.
Postmark La Follette Arts, Culture and History Center’s Homemade ArtSHINE Theater will be auditioning for their fifth upcoming play, Southbound on Saturday July 24 from 4 to 7 p.m. and on Sunday, July 25 from 2 to 6 p.m. Elaine Schatzline-Behr, Director of the theater, as well as Managing Director and Tony Branam, playwright and Musical Director for Postmark LaFollette will be on hand to lead the auditions. The previous plays have been extremely well received by the community with almost complete sell outs for each performance. The plays are based on local lore and some have had a comedic side to them. Tony has brought his humor to the stage again in Southbound. Highly entertaining.
Most of those who have participated in previous plays have no previous experience. Elaine’s background and degrees in theater has been evident in her ability to bring the best out in those who have taken the leap to try something they have always wanted to do but never had the opportunity. Now is your time.
Please come prepared to read a prepared segment from the script. It is very important that you also bring your personal calendar with you to track any conflicts that may arise between July 26 through October 10. There are some concessions that can be made, but they have to be planned well in advance. Many hours and an abundance of detail go into putting a play together.
If your interested in working behind the scenes please come during these auditioning hours to discuss or sign on for the multiple positions it takes to make a play come to fruition.
There are numerous rehearsals and everyone associated with the play needs to be able to attend. The play opens to a live audience October 1 & 2 at 7 p.m. performances and October 3 at a 2 p.m. matinee performance, and will have a second round of performances the following weekend, October 8, 9 and 10, same time schedule.
Postmark LaFollette is happy to be able to bring this type of live entertainment back into our community; It’s long overdue. Any questions can be sent to postmarklafollette@gmail.com or visit our website at www.postmarklafollette.weebly.com
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CHECK OUT THESE TWO VIDEO CLIPS OF A SHORT READINGS IN THE PLAY
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1koLAA3fCayXiyj9ReyYEAQDIOJBPcLvW/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B4hEMkQV4aNrXleGOG5tcx6DLgsTGqJG/view?usp=sharing
MAC AND THE MUSICAL CATS
PAST PERFORMANCE 2019
PAST PERFORMANCE 2019
Save the dates of December 7 or 8, get the kids ready for a special treat just for them. “Mac and the Musical Cats” will be coming to our stage at Postmark LaFollette, 119 S. Tennessee Avenue. There is plenty of parking in the City parking lot.
December 7 performance will be at 4 p.m. The Christmas Parade starts at 6 p.m. that evening, a fun day for our youth. The 4 p.m. performance will give attendees plenty of time to come down; see the play and have plenty of time to get a great spot to see the Christmas Parade that starts at 6 p.m.
Sunday, December 8 performance will be at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $3 each or 2 for $5. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR AT EACH PERFORMANCE
We are partnering with GiGi’s Dance Studio to bring a short story to the community about a young boy who visits LaFollette during WWII and staying at the Russell Hotel. While peering out the window he sees a line of cats coming down the ally, some with instruments on their back. They end up in the old post office. His curiosity gets the best of him and he follows the cats, that no one else seems to see. The story tells of how the musical cats inspired him throughout his life.
An illustrated book, in poem form of “Mac and the Musical Cats” is available with a donation of $10 to Postmark LaFollette, a 501c3 non profit.
December 7 performance will be at 4 p.m. The Christmas Parade starts at 6 p.m. that evening, a fun day for our youth. The 4 p.m. performance will give attendees plenty of time to come down; see the play and have plenty of time to get a great spot to see the Christmas Parade that starts at 6 p.m.
Sunday, December 8 performance will be at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $3 each or 2 for $5. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR AT EACH PERFORMANCE
We are partnering with GiGi’s Dance Studio to bring a short story to the community about a young boy who visits LaFollette during WWII and staying at the Russell Hotel. While peering out the window he sees a line of cats coming down the ally, some with instruments on their back. They end up in the old post office. His curiosity gets the best of him and he follows the cats, that no one else seems to see. The story tells of how the musical cats inspired him throughout his life.
An illustrated book, in poem form of “Mac and the Musical Cats” is available with a donation of $10 to Postmark LaFollette, a 501c3 non profit.
Tickets will be on sales at Community Trust Bank and United Cumberland Bank. You can reserve Tickets by emailing us with contact form below. We will contact you for payment method and reserve your ticket for will call at door.
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Northbound is brought to our community by a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commisison's Rural Arts Project grant as well as funding support from Senator Ken Yager. Our other fine supporters are, Community Trust Bank, Indian River Marina, United Cumberland Bank, and Terry's Pharmacy.
Tickets are available at the door for the August 24 and 25, along with August 30, 31 and September 1. Friday and Saturday performances doors open at 6:15 and Sundays doors open at 1:15. Performances start 45 minutes later. 
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Postmark Theater creates live theater for our community, by our community, and about our community.
Northbound will be our fourth play that has been written about our community.
Our first play, Letter Box, Please Forward was based during the period of 1930's through WWII. The creative use of actual letters that came through the former LaFollette Post Office as well as stories that have been told over time were reproduced on several stages throughout the old sorting room and the ghost of Irene Miller the first post mistress of the then new building guided us through these events, some heartwarming and other told the sad stories of the era.
Our second play, Mountain Voices was adaptation of several books written by local authors about the lives and times of either their growing up in Campbell County, or their family histories. Like Letter Box, the play was presented in a vignette setting as the players moved from one authors writing to the next. As they moved from story to story, the actors left a bit of their costume on the stage, at the end of the play all of the pieces of costumes were picked up and deposited in a trunk from which a beautiful quilt appears on stage showing that all of these stories, and their characters were intertwined by the fabric of their lives and blended together in a beautiful quilt.
Our third play, written by Tony Branam was a full length play called Where I Belong, a hilarious comedy portraying how one women's desire to have her granddaughter return home, where she belonged, and how she achieved that goal. Naturally she meets up with all of the helpful folks who were there just to make her life much easier. The other aspect was that her husband was more than excited to come and live in the peace and quiet of the country. So may funny things happened around the old stove in the store.
Our fourth play written also by Tony Branam, Northbound and he has again been very creative and put his comedic endeavors to use for a time where things were rough for the entire country, but especially in the south. This play was written to coincide with Postmark LaFollette receiving the Smithsonian Exhibit which will start September 7. The exhibit is called Crossroads: Changes In Rural America. One of the many changes involved so many people moving North to find work in manufacturing plants as coal mines and farming became more and more difficult to provide people with the work necessary to live.
Tony takes on the lighter side of a family moving North and how their travel to Ohio on a Scenic Cruiser Bus and the events that unfold on that bus.
Northbound will be our fourth play that has been written about our community.
Our first play, Letter Box, Please Forward was based during the period of 1930's through WWII. The creative use of actual letters that came through the former LaFollette Post Office as well as stories that have been told over time were reproduced on several stages throughout the old sorting room and the ghost of Irene Miller the first post mistress of the then new building guided us through these events, some heartwarming and other told the sad stories of the era.
Our second play, Mountain Voices was adaptation of several books written by local authors about the lives and times of either their growing up in Campbell County, or their family histories. Like Letter Box, the play was presented in a vignette setting as the players moved from one authors writing to the next. As they moved from story to story, the actors left a bit of their costume on the stage, at the end of the play all of the pieces of costumes were picked up and deposited in a trunk from which a beautiful quilt appears on stage showing that all of these stories, and their characters were intertwined by the fabric of their lives and blended together in a beautiful quilt.
Our third play, written by Tony Branam was a full length play called Where I Belong, a hilarious comedy portraying how one women's desire to have her granddaughter return home, where she belonged, and how she achieved that goal. Naturally she meets up with all of the helpful folks who were there just to make her life much easier. The other aspect was that her husband was more than excited to come and live in the peace and quiet of the country. So may funny things happened around the old stove in the store.
Our fourth play written also by Tony Branam, Northbound and he has again been very creative and put his comedic endeavors to use for a time where things were rough for the entire country, but especially in the south. This play was written to coincide with Postmark LaFollette receiving the Smithsonian Exhibit which will start September 7. The exhibit is called Crossroads: Changes In Rural America. One of the many changes involved so many people moving North to find work in manufacturing plants as coal mines and farming became more and more difficult to provide people with the work necessary to live.
Tony takes on the lighter side of a family moving North and how their travel to Ohio on a Scenic Cruiser Bus and the events that unfold on that bus.
