The Miracle Worker
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 23, 2008
Closed Feb 24, 2008
Opened Jan 23, 2008
Closed Feb 24, 2008
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Before Helen Keller became a world famous speaker, author, and advocate, she was a blind, deaf, and mostly mute child living in Alabama in the 1880s. Misunderstood, pitied, and consequently spoiled by her family, Helen terrorized the household with her tantrums and tricks. Then, Anne Sullivan arrived. She was merely 20 years old herself, but Anne held the key that would unlock the door between Helen and the world.
William Gibson's Tony Award-winning play (adapted into the Academy Award-winning film) unfolds the trials and tribulations Anne and Helen encountered as they forged what would become a 49-year-long friendship. From their isolation in the family cottage house to the watershed moment when Helen finally understood the concept of language and communication, The Miracle Worker is a profoundly moving retelling of the groundbreaking work of two pioneers, as well as the tender relationship between them.
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Since most theatergoers know of the deaf and blind Helen Keller's triumph over her seeming limitations, I'm revealing nothing by saying how beautifully the onset of that famous victory is executed during the climactic moments of William Gibson's 1959 play, The Miracle Worker, now getting a commendable revival at the Paper Mill Playhouse, under the direction of Susan Fenichell.
Although teacher Anne Sullivan (Annika Boras) is ostensibly the one who's worked the titular miracle in the Tony Award-winning piece, it's young Meredith Lipson who performs a theatrical miracle at the moment when Helen makes the connection between the water she's just obtained at the lawn pump and the letters spelli[...]