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7th Street Theater - "The Letter" (2009) TEASER


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Intermission is over! We return back to the 7TH STREET THEATER to watch our favorite stories about the fictional lives of Christian stage actors. This meta-media soap opera by Dave Christiano has always been one of the biggest examples of Christian fantasy to us, because it imagines a world where a Christian theater would be popular and high-earning enough to keep drawing in crowds week after week. We did an episode on 7TH STREET THEATER a few years ago where we covered more of the background about this show. We've basically forgotten all of our research since then, so we decided instead to focus on a four episode storyline called "THE LETTER". In this arc, Christian stage actress Andi gets an admiring fan letter from a man who says he sees her show every week and has been praying to God for a Christian woman to enter his life. Andi has never seen this man, but his letters fill her with a mixture of excitement and confusion, especially when he says he is "attracted to her in every way." Andi's coworkers at the theater seem unreasonably excited for her and practically beg her to meet the guy, but Andi has doubt and decides to pray to God about it, resulting in a confusing plot-line about prayer as magical thinking. The admirer asks Andi to send a signal to him from the stage, but Andi's signal is thwarted unknowingly by her cast members, blocking the meeting. Is this really a sign from God, or is it the beginning stages of mental illness? Almost every aspect of this scenario, from Andi's reaction, to her coworkers' reactions, to the insane letters themselves, seems wildly off base for how someone in real life would handle this situation. It's a pretty bizarre plot from a show that usually tries to be as tediously realistic as possible. That's why there's no better introduction to prolific Christian creator Dave Christiano's mind than THE LETTER.

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