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"Miracle Theatre are a real joy – go and see them!"
Western Morning News
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About Miracle Theatre Company
Miracle Theatre Company tours productions of classic works and new writing; funny, highly visual and intensely dramatic. It is one of Britain’s foremost outdoor theatre companies with a reputation for entertaining, intelligent, very funny and often startlingly original theatre that builds instant rapport with audiences.
In summer, the company visits spectacular ancient sites, gardens, parks and castles bringing the unique and memorable experience of live theatre to people of all ages.
The Miracle team takes to the road again in the winter months visiting towns and rural venues all over the UK with the colourful and well crafted productions that have built a reputation as “Some of the cleverest comic shows seen anywhere”. The touring company consists of 5-7 performers and crew, travelling with full set, lights, sound and staging.
Miracle adapts to venues of all shapes and sizes, and the shows are usually suitable for audiences of all ages, from toddlers to teenagers, young adults to grandparents.
Previous Shows
Our History
Our History
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.
