Miracle has come a long way since it started in 1979 (as the Cornish Miracle Theatre Company) but it's also stayed put! The organisation may have grown but it's still committed to employing local actors, crew and staff and to bringing top quality theatre to small scale rural venues across Cornwall and the South West.
The first production in 1979 was The Beginning of the World or Origo Mundi, the first part of the Ordinalia, or Cornish miracle plays.
The Company has since produced a striking variety of material: 24 original works, including four Georgian-style pantomimes; a Victorian music hall show about Dr Livingstone; a fifties musical (Beauty and the Beast from Mars); a whodunnit (The Case of the Frightened Lady); a medieval farce (The Scapegoat) and a series of tongue-in-cheek examinations of British history, starting with The Great Enterprise about the Spanish Armada; six of Shakespeare’s plays, cunningly adapted for performance by six actors; adaptations of several European classics, such as Victor Hugo’s ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ (Quasimodo) and Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector; three ventures into science fiction (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Time Machine and Cat’s Cradle) and two modern masterpieces and both suitably surreal and absurd, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs.