A young man arrives in a small Irish village with a mission: debunk the miracle that has the locals buzzing and the Church nervous. A graveyard, they say, moved overnight. Zeno Legge has been sent by his powerful uncle, a Cardinal Archbishop, to investigate before the Church commits to a position on this inconvenience. But the deeper Zeno digs, the murkier things become. The local priest, Father Hickey, has reasons to believe. The villagers have reasons to hope. And Zeno himself has reasons, namely the priest's niece Kate, to want the investigation to stretch indefinitely. Shaw, writing at his sharpest, uses this absurd premise to skewer religious certainty and its opposite with equal precision. The miracle becomes a Rorschach test for everyone who encounters it: proof of divine intervention for the faithful, con for the skeptics, career opportunity for the ambitious, and refuge for the broken. What emerges is a play about the stories we need to believe, and what we'll sacrifice to keep them alive.
