The Miracle Church
By Sybil Berry

The Characters
Odetta (Debbie Starling Sims)
Odell (Chappale Burton)
Odell's Friend (Raymond "King" Reese)
Odelia (Tahirah Turner & Leslie Burton)
Isis (Vicki Bey); Aubry Boss (Sala Udin); Willy Deake (Leo Beatty)
Stanley Stein (Rich Keitel); Rosetta (Dana Hamlin)
Brother (Aaron Beatty); Sisters (Renee Sorrell, Barbara Deanda, Betty Pendleton, Barbara Alexander)

Director's Notes
The play takes place in a contemporary African American neighborhood in the older section of the city. This part of the neighborhood is dominated by the Miracle Churches. They are a row of storefront churches that line Miracle Row, an affectionate name for the source of Odetta's livelihood.

The action takes place in the two Miracle Churches and Odetta's apartment.

Despite the uneasy relations existing between African-American and other cultural groups, the Black community in the urban areas of America still struggles to re-evaluate, define and discover itself through the challenge of the family, religion, day to day economics, misconceptions, and competing ideologies, all of which shape the mouths of those who actively and articulately ask, "How shall we live?" The beauty of this simple question lives in wizened eyes, youthful aspirations, above-average courage, steadfast faith, and irrepressible humor. The result of this simple question is we have nowhere to go but forward. -Sybil Berry (Author)