I Need A Miracle
Can any world survive a benevolent god?
Produced by Wireless Theatre for Foggy Outline | Created by Matt Boothman
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In this original audio drama podcast, every episode is a prayer, some prayers are granted, and a prayer granted can upend the world.
Each episode, each prayer, is a single desperate moment of a life in another world. A world shaped by the divine. The voices we hear know an omnipotent being is listening. They know not all pleas are granted – but some are. And they believe in the benevolence of their god.
Desperation and calculation, need and desire render each new character in vivid shades. And episode by episode, a miraculous yet tumultuous world is assembled in glimpses.
For fans of
Intimate & immersive
You, the listener, stand in for a silently listening god. Hear brazen demands for divine intervention and vulnerable, secret pleas for deliverance. Whose requests would you grant and why? Does anyone deserve a miracle?
Intricate & intriguing
Which pleas are granted? How does the listening being decide? What are the Upheavals that regularly wrack this world? What threatens to rise from the Depths? And can any being with ultimate power truly be benevolent?
Rich & relatable
I Need A Miracle dives deep into the many kinds of wanting, and the many ways of asking for help. How would you make your case to an omnipotent being who grants some miracles but not others, based on ineffable criteria? The petitioners’ struggles will ring true to many listeners from our own world of hoarded, jealously guarded resources.
What to expect
Each episode of I Need A Miracle is a monologue lasting 5–20 minutes. A new character every episode. Never the same character twice. Always addressing a plea to a listening deity – which never makes a sound.
Cast
Annette Badland
Nathan Blades
Saffron Coomber
Dédé Davi
Robyn Holdaway
David Holt
Patrick McKenzie
Harry Myers
Caleb Obediah
Lizzie Waterworth
Sarah Whitehouse
Crew
Created and written by Matt Boothman
Directed by Robert Valentine
Produced by Sarah Golding
Broadcast assistance from Teresa Milewski
Casting by Fiona Thraille
Music by Katharine Seaton
Recorded by Stephen H. at Jukebox Studios
Sound design by Sarah Buchynski
Produced by Wireless Theatre for Foggy Outline
Press kit
PDF with production information, including cast, crew and contact details.
Zip file containing podcast artwork and behind the scenes photos.
Zip file containing audio-only and video (audiogram) versions of the trailer.
The future
In future seasons of I Need A Miracle, a variety of guest writers pick up the baton and expand the story of the world.
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