Poste Restante

Who are the Secret Agents?
Bonnie and Tim´s partner acrobatics were featured for six years with the nationally and internationally touring Snappy Dance Theater, a Boston-based dance company, where their movement was called “breathtakingly simple” by the Boston Globe. They formed They Gotta Be Secret Agents in 2007 and were Resident Artists of Perishable Theater, Providence, RI from 2007-2009. Their new work has been seen throughout New England at HONK!, the Central Square Post Office, Jerkus Circus, Perishable Theater, Stony Brook T stop, Blood from a Turnip, Boston Puppet Slam, and Art Beat. In 2009, they ventured to the west coast and performed to sold out houses at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. They will be performing at the Fringe Festival Praha and at Projekttheater in Dresden, Germany, 10-12 June. In July, they will be returning to the US with possible performances in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Austin.

Why Postal Service?
Poste Restante was inspired by the inner workings of the Dead Letter Office: the US Postal Service´s detective branch charged with solving the cases of undeliverable mail since 1825. This got Tim and Bonnie thinking about letter writing as a dying art form, so susceptible to the mysterious time lapse between sending and receiving that e-mail doesn´t travel through. When Tim moved to Philadelphia from Boston in 2008, their letter writing theme became more than a muse. It became an integral part of their creative process. Tim and Bonnie love sending and receiving letters. They love the looks, the smells, and the content. Where are the stamps, postmarks, and evidence of travel in e-mails? Why not drop a postcard to a friend? You know you love receiving a letter instead of a bill in the mail, right?