Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does an unsentimental attitude toward a deaf, dumb and blind child make "unforgettable theater?" See THEATER, The Miracle Worker...
...moment the camera focused on the kids in the cast, Armstrong Circle Theater's Zone of Silence (CBS) changed from a quiet, competent documentary into a warm and moving play. A tour through The Bronx's St. Joseph's School for the Deaf turned into a tense, hour-long exploration of all the dimensions of a handicapped child's difficulties. With consistent skill, none of the youngsters ever seemed to slip out of the isolating "zone of silence," but none of them fitted the difficult script with more professional precision than a blue-eyed, bang-trimmed...
Patty's familiarity with her role was understandable. Even while her taped performance in Zone was on the air last week, Patty was onstage in Boston playing a similar but far more difficult part. She is the deaf, mute and blind child of The Miracle Worker, the Broadway-bound account of Helen Keller's early years (TIME, Oct. 5). And in The Miracle Worker, Patty's achievement is even more astonishing than it was in Zone...
...Miracle Worker tells in remarkably unmawkish fashion the story of the childhood of Helen Keller. Miss Keller, left blind and deaf in infancy by a near-fatal illness, is deservedly one of the marvels of our age, a woman who despite her handicaps has "seen" and done more than many dream of. The "miracle worker" who awakened young Helen Keller to the world around her, who taught her to "talk," to "see," and to "hear" was Annie Sullivan, a Boston Irish girl, once blind herself...
...half weeks. As it turned out--and quite accidentally--all three were by Shakespeare. Fortunately, Jacques Barzun's recent statement, "I agree with that small but articulate group of people who would rather not see Shakespeare acted"--shocking for a man of his staggering brilliance and perception--fell on deaf ears...