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A blistering conflict erupts between two postal workers, and their customers and neighbors, who all struggle to find common ground in a one-room Post Office that could be anywhere in America, a place of escalating toxicity. The Post Office itself, in a unique design by Charles Renfro, is a character, containing multitudes, in this contemporary chamber opera, where the ghost of Benjamin Franklin, founder of the U.S. postal service, laments the threat to his legacy and to democracy itself.
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