The Miracle Worker at The City Theatre

Dates: (10/28/2011 - 11/20/2011 )

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The City Theatre

3823 Airport Blvd # D
Austin,TX 78722

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Phone: 512-524-2870

Tickets: $10-$25

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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life.

William Gibson’s play tells the story of young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, who is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a
"half-blind schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie attempts to break through Helen's walls of silence and darkness to teach her to communicate. Only her teacher realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be
rescued from the dark. The play was written following Gibson’s discovery of Sullivan’s letters detailing her experiences teaching a young deaf and blind child in Alabama in the late 1800s.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - - they must be felt with the heart.

The Miracle Worker is a Tony Award-winning play, an Academy Award-winning movie, an Emmy Award-winning television movie and was recently revived on Broadway in 2010 with Abigail Breslin.

It is directed by City Theatre’s Artistic Director and three – time B. Iden Payne nominee Andy Berkovsky with assistance by Matthew Burnett. "This play is a touching story of strength and hope,” Berkovsky says. “It puts human struggles into such a poignant perspective and truly highlights the potential of those who are faced with exceptional difficulties." This past year marked
the 50th anniversary of The Miracle Worker and the story remains compelling — how Helen Keller, a deaf and blind child, became a leading figure of the twentieth century. William Gibson’s classic touches the heart because it is a compelling example of a powerful true-life story related in an inspirational and moving way. This is a drama about a family for families.
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William Gibson

Cast and Creative team for The Miracle Worker at The City Theatre

Dawn Erin, Michael Miller, Kim Rubin, Gabriel Diehl,
Eva McQuade, R. Michael Clinkscales and Monique Borses as Helen.

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