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'After 18 years on death row, Marvin Lee Wilson was executed by lethal injection. But after a 2002 Supreme Court ruling, his sub-normal IQ should have disqualified him from the death sentence. Strapped to a gurney, his final statement was a plea for recognition: ‘I am a miracle’.
'Taking these words as a point of departure, playwright Declan Greene meets Wilson’s story with a work of monumental scope, spanning three continents and two hundred and forty years. In an 18th Century slave colony, a soldier is sent upriver on a suicide mission. In present-day Melbourne, a man finds himself entrapped by his carer. In Huntsville, Texas, a prisoner awaits his death. And somewhere beyond time and history, a sublime force lays a plan to rewrite the future.
'Set to a transcendent choral score, I Am a Miracle depicts a world bound to the injustices of the past – crying out for intervention. Wildly careening between the epic and the intimate, this is a mind-expanding theatrical experience / determined to change the course of history.' (Publication summary)
Production Details
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Performed at the Malthouse Theatre, Merlyn Theatre, Southbank, Victoria : 8 July - 9 August 2015.
Director: Matthew Lutton.
Composer: David Chisholm.
Set & Costume Designer: Marg Horwell.
Set & Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.
Sound Designer & Engineer: Marco Cher-Gibard.
Cast: Melita Jurisic, Hana Lee Crisp, and Bert LaBonté.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Equaliser
2016
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 20 February 2016; -
Daring New Vision for Malthouse
2015
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— Appears in: The Age , 18 July 2015; (p. 39)
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Daring New Vision for Malthouse
2015
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— Appears in: The Age , 18 July 2015; (p. 39) -
The Equaliser
2016
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 20 February 2016;
Awards
- 2016 winner Victorian Green Room Awards — Production : Theatre - Companies
- 2016 joint winner Victorian Green Room Awards — Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
- 2016 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Louis Esson Prize for Drama