Sunday, May 4, 2014

Unusual Mail

On my third day as an Intern (which is actually my third week since starting) the Development Manager received a hand written letter. Bewildered by such an item (apparently people still physically write letters) she opened the letter and began to read it out loud. From memory it went something like this:

Dear Wooster Group,
I am an innocent man who has been sentenced to death. I wish to work with your company in producing a theatre piece about my story.

The remainder of the letter outlined other theatre works that the prisoner had produced and how he wanted to sell his story in the hopes that the company would devise a theatre piece based on his life.

After reading the letter the Development Manager was a bit shocked and unsure what to do, especially with three young interns gawking at her, she quickly realised that it probably wasn't the best idea to have read the letter out loud and went into her office to hide.

Nothing happened after that, everyone went back to staring at their computer screens and I was sent out to go to the post office. I guess the Wooster Group have decided not to pursue this story as I haven’t heard anything else about it. What a random letter though!

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