STARRING

JEAN GUY BOUCHARD, ELLEN DAVID, ARTHUR HOLDEN, SHEENA GAZE-DESLANDES, HOWARD ROSENSTEIN

Marty's back to work after suffering a nervous breakdown; Elizabeth's daughter is sick at home with a babysitter; Carrie uses all her charms to impress as she dreams of a job in television while Benjamin is just trying to get the paper out, all overseen by the ghosts of an industry that used to be.  It's another night on the news desk, where a few battle-scarred, overworked copy editors wrestle with fractured syntax and crushed ideals to get the next edition out.  Tempers frayed from layoffs, cutbacks and corroded ambitions; it's a miracle they can get the paper out at all.  A miracle that happens every day.

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January 26th to February 14th, 2010 at the Bain St Michel 5300 St Dominique


Previews     January 26, 27
Opening     January 28
Tues. through Sat.    20:00
Sunday Matinee    14:00
Monday     DARK
General Admission         $20
Seniors & Students    $15
Groups (6 or more)    $10

Written by David Sherman

David Sherman is a journalist, screenwriter and playwright, former playwright in residence at the Centaur Theatre.  He has worked at The Montreal Star and The Gazette as a copy boy, music critic, feature writer, reporter and lastly, as a copy editor.  He began writing the Daily Miracle a few years ago while he was working as an editor on the news desk at The Gazette.  The play The Daily Miracle is a work of fiction, as are the characters, but the true strains and stress of working the desk in today's deteriorating newspaper industry are stranger than fiction.

Directed by Guy Sprung