Baby Screams Miracle

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Summary

A freak storm knocks down all the trees in town and brings a prodigal daughter rushing home. But has she come for reconciliation? Or as an angel of vengeance? A comic new play about love, forgiveness and family struggling to operate in a relentlessly chaotic and violent world.

History

Baby Screams Miracle received its world premiere at The Wild Project, presented by Clubbed Thumb, under the direction of Portia Krieger in May of 2013.

CAROL - Pregnant and married to Gabriel.
GABRIEL - Carol's husband. Exploring his religion.
BARBARA - Carol's mother.
KAYDEN - Carol and Gabriel's 6-year old daughter.
CYNTHIA - Carol & Gabriel's 26-year old daughter. Minus one foot.

Setting The home of Carol and Eureka, Washington.

Media

"A genuinely fragile, complex piece of work....the weather-minded [Baby Screams Miracle] functions atmospherically, establishing a sense of ongoing, endless menace. It's ruthlessly clever at taking us into the eye of the storm." - Time Out New York

"Clare Barron’s new play is a solid structure with the potential to weather any impending storm...It would be cliche to say that one will be 'blown away' by this production or 'swept off one’s feet,' but the sentiment still applies, and the accolades are deserved. Baby Screams Miracle is a testament to the ambition of Clubbed Thumb, and it also demonstrates the necessity of producing works by emerging writers like Ms. Barron." - Theatre Is Easy

"Clubbed Thumb has rarely presented a show more on target with their mission of producing 'Funny, Strange, Provocative' new writing than with its season opener Baby Screams Miracle. This new play by Clare Barron takes an American family already deeply enmeshed in its own weirdness and plunges them suddenly into a chaotic world that grows stranger by the minute." - New York Theatre Review

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Authors

Clare Barron

Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play Dance Nation recently received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in May 2018 and subsequently its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London. It was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Pri ...

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