![]() ![]() For tickets or disability accommodations for the performance, please contact the WWU Box Office at (360) 650-6146 or visit. Monday through Saturday and one hour prior to the performance. Tickets are available through the WWU Box Office and cost $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and WWU faculty and staff, and $9 for students. ![]() All performances will be held in the PAC Mainstage Theater. Wednesday through Saturday, May 19 to 22, as well as at 2 p.m. "The Miracle Worker" will show at 7:30 p.m. The play was then adapted into the famous feature-length film, in which Duke and Bancroft reprised their roles. Originally a teleplay written by William Gibson, "The Miracle Worker" premiered on Broadway in 1959, starring Patty Duke as the irascible Helen Keller and Ann Bancroft as the unyielding Annie Sullivan. To me, that is the essential message of the play." "We all unlock the potential in each other. They are trying to overcome obstacles in their own lives, cannot do so alone, and must find the 'key' in others," Dizney said. "But the play is so much more than their relationship … all of the characters transform. The play centers on the relationship between young Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing as an infant, and her teacher Annie Sullivan, who, through perseverance and guile, reaches into Helen's world and brings her the gift of language: sign language. "The story of 'The Miracle Worker' is one of the most inspiring of our times, relating the triumph of Helen Keller over seemingly insurmountable obstacles," Dizney said. There were a lot of them, with sores all over from diseases you're not supposed to talk about.The WWU Department of Theatre Arts will present "The Miracle Worker," directed by WWU Theatre instructor Patrick Dizney, from May 19 to 23 in the Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater. They left afterwards, but the babies stayed. Then there were girls in another ward to have babies they didn't want. And some of the kind that keep after other girls, especially the young ones. Then there were younger ones across the hall, prostitutes mostly, with TB and epileptic fits. Crippled, blind, most of them dying, but even if what they had was catching, there was nowhere else to move them. Maybe you'd like to know what Helen will find there, not on visiting days. Rats? Why, my brother Jimmy and I used to play with the rats because we didn't have any toys. to.Īnnie Sullivan: The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum, the State Alms House. It's the one way I can get back in touch with Helen, and I don't see how I can be rude to you again if you're not around to interfere with me.Ĭaptain Arthur Keller: And what's your plan if I say no? Pack the other half for home and abandon your charge to. Well, even a dog you housebreak.Īnnie Sullivan: I have to live with her somewhere else.Īnnie Sullivan: Until she learns to listen to and depend on me.Īnnie Sullivan: Captain Keller, it meets both of your conditions. All these years you've felt so sorry for her you've kept her like a pet. Keller, I don't think Helen's greatest handicap is deafness or blindness. Like the lost lamb in the parable, I love her all the more.Īnnie Sullivan: Mrs. But she meant water! She knew what it meant at only six months old! I never saw a child so bright or outgoing! It's still in her, somewhere. She learns! Did you know she began talking when she was only six months old? She could say water. Kate Keller: Miss Annie, I'm not agreed! She did fold her napkin. It's hopeless here.Ĭaptain Arthur Keller: Am I to understand.Īnnie Sullivan: We all agree it's hopeless here. I've decided to give you a second chance.Ĭaptain Arthur Keller: To remain our employee! But on two conditions! I'm not accustomed to rudeness! If you want to stay, there must be a radical change of manner!Ĭaptain Arthur Keller: Yours, young lady! Isn't it obvious? You must convice me that there's the slightest hope of you teaching a child who now flees from you like the plague.Īnnie Sullivan: There isn't. Why do you wear them? The sun's been down over an hour.Īnnie Sullivan: Any kind of light hurts my eyes.Ĭaptain Arthur Keller: Well, put them on, Miss Sullivan. Captain Arthur Keller: Miss Sullivan, I find it difficult to talk through those glasses. ![]()
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