Miracle Worker, The
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1900-1910
- 7M, 7F
- ISBN: 9780573612381
Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 1900-1910
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student
- Accolades:
- Winner! 1960 Tony Award for Best Play
The Miracle Worker dramatizes the 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, Annie's success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single, glorious word: "water."
REVIEWS:
"Interesting, absorbing and moving."
The New York Post
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 7F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
KATE - Helen's mother
CAPTAIN KELLER - Helen's father, Kate's husband
HELEN - struck deaf and blind by a fever she had as an infant
MARTHA - a servant child
PERCY - a servant child
AUNT EV
JAMES KELLER - Captain Keller's son
ANAGNOS - instructor at the Perkins Institute for the Blind
ANNIE SULLIVAN - 20, Helen's teacher, has a sever vision impairment
VINEY - a servant
BLIND GIRLS - students at the Perkins Institute
A SERVANT
OFFSTAGE VOICES
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Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. |
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