If you’ve been to the theatre in Cornwall over the past forty years at all, chances are you’ve caught a Miracle Theatre performance. With no home theatre, Miracle tours the length and breadth of the Duchy, as well as further afield, bringing their unique brand of diverse and challenging scripts, ever-more ambitious sets, and collaborations with a range of actors, makers, musicians and communities to audiences.

Miracle was born in 1979, with their debut performance the aptly named The Beginning of the World, adapted by Bill Scott, founder of the then fledgling theatre company. This was followed by another Cornish standard, Tristan & Iseult, and The Fables of Faust, which almost ended in disaster when Hell’s Angels set fire to the marquee while they were on stage in North Devon. A few years later, Miracle morphed into a trio, comprising Keri Jessiman, Steve Clark and Bill, specialising in touring short history plays. They proved hugely popular with children and families and played at venues across the country.

The company has had bases at Fentongoose, Falmouth, Truro and Krowji. In early 2019 it decamped to a large unit on Treleigh Industrial Estate in Redruth, allowing its practitioners to make productions, rehearse, store sets and costumes, and run the company from a single site.

For those that like numbers, since 1979 Miracle has worked with an estimated 200 artists to create 44 shows and deliver more than 3,000 performances during 66 tours to an estimated 450,000 people in 500-plus locations.

For 2025, Miracle is back with Twelfth Night – to deliver a bold, fresh, accessible take on Shakespeare’s comedy, blending their playful spirit with the Bard’s wit. Expect plenty of belly laughs, heart ache, gloriously outrageous characters, and a contemporary twist proving once and for all, proving once and for all that affection isn’t about appearance it’s about connection.

Tickets will be going on sale by 1st April with performances starting at The Minack Theatre on 9 June until 12 June, and then touring until late August.