The Miracle Worker

By William Gibson

Winner! 1960 Tony Award, Best Play

Immortalized on stage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller.

The Miracle Worker dramatizes teh volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge.  Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such.   Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence.  With scenes of intense physical and emotional dynamism, Anne's success with Helen finally come with the utterance of a single, glorious word: “water.”