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...Miracle Worker. Actress Anne Bancroft plays the Irish tutor who draws the deaf-mute child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) into the light of language. The play is uncoordinated, but the acting makes for a deeply moving evening...
...restore Poblet over the past two years, employing a craft knowledge inherited from Gothic times, which persists in Spain as nowhere else. Screens and iron chandeliers had come from Ramon Martí's hands. But it was with a crucifix for a Poblet chapel that Martí, a "mute, inglorious Milton" if there ever was one, had shown himself a son and proper heir of the early Gothic tradition at its most triumphant...
...work, Actress Bancroft was beginning to understand that last dimension of the role for which she was preparing. Already a part of her was onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...
...Miracle Worker. Remarkably acted by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, William Gibson's fairly makeshift story of Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent grappling with the deaf, blind, mute child, Helen Keller, most of the time emerges an unsentimental human document and memorable theater...
Wayne, as usual, magnificent. As Brother Juniper, he is gay and wistful, pleading and commanding, mute and eloquent. He has the gift of changing the audience's mood from mirth to melancholy by altering the tone of his voice. And his stage presence is remarkable; his one or two fluffs sounded almost like part of the script, and he steadied a wavering child actor without missing a line...