{"id":654,"date":"2010-02-21T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/02\/miracle-worker-on-broadway\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:07:19","slug":"miracle-worker-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/02\/miracle-worker-on-broadway.html","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Worker on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We saw the new production of Miracle Worker last evening.<\/p>\n

A lovely show.<\/p>\n

A lovely story. Brilliantly done. Loved it. Loved it.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nLike with most all art, author William Gibson takes some liberties with history in service of a larger project. Still, I was sitting through the play next to the research librarian at Perkins School for the Blind (endless prayers of good will for that blessed institution\u2026). Small things, like the ages of the characters are not quite right. And a bit bigger, Captain Keller, by most accounts a monster, gets off pretty easy in the script.<\/p>\nMost off is the way the remarkable Annie Sullivan discovers how to communicate with the deafblind. There is some sop to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Gridley_Howe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Samuel Gridley Howe<\/a>, the first director of Perkins, she references her studying his writings. But, the script also flat out has Annie say no one has taught a deafblind person \u2013 until as the script unfolds, she does.<\/p>\nOf course she does.<\/p>\nBut Dr Howe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laura_Bridgman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">did it a generation before<\/a>. And in subsequent years before Ms Sullivan, forever for Helen and us, Teacher, made her way to Alabama, a number of deafblind folk were liberated from the prison of a mind without language. Not scores, but a system was beginning.<\/p>\nAnd not that it wasn\u2019t hard. Excruciatingly hard. And never before done away from Perkins School for the Blind.<\/p>\nI understand sliding over the fact Annie had indeed been given tools, however imperfect. I do wish they hadn\u2019t gone a step farther. But enough on that detail.<\/p>\nSullivan is one of my heroes.<\/p>\nAmazing guts. Fine mind. Driven. 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