![]() ![]() ![]() But it is the Annie-Helen confrontations - at times as comic as they are strenuous - that move ``The Miracle Worker.'' Typical of the encounters that lead to the play's famous and still heart-stopping denouement is the second-act tussle (realistically staged by fight coordinator B.H. ![]() The tartly outspoken young teacher thus seeks to explain the motives behind her struggle to emancipate Helen. Trying to convince Helen's skeptical parents of the importance of words to Helen, Annie says: ``Language is to the mind as light is to the eye.'' And later on, when they are satisfied with a merely pacified child, ``Obedience without understanding is a blindness too.'' Gibson dramatized the intense confrontation with an appreciation of its theatrics plus an awareness of its broader implications. Director Vivian Matalon has gone to the heart of the matter in the fine new revival of William Gibson's 1959 Tony Award-winning drama, ``The Miracle Worker.'' The play's powerful emotional appeal centers, of course, on the relationship between two notable real-life characters: Annie Sullivan (Karen Allen), the 20-year-old Perkins School graduate, and Helen Keller (Eevin Hartsough), the blind, deaf, mute seven-year-old Annie is engaged to tutor. The Miracle Worker Play by William Gibson. ![]()
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