Word: sullivanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captured at last, and seated forcibly at table, Helen Keller still does not yield. She flings her spoon away. Annie slaps another into her hand-and another and another. In the end Teacher Annie Sullivan stands triumphant above her charge. She has won a signal victory: Helen has eaten with a spoon and folded her napkin...
Italian from Galway. What Anne Bancroft nightly brings to Annie Sullivan, besides sheer physical stamina, is an extraordinary talent for observation, an ear and an eye for the small, significant detail that transforms mimicry into understanding. So the coarse, curbside intonations of The Bronx were erased with intuitive skill at the flare of a footlight and the rise of a curtain. Seesaw's Gittel spoke with an inflection that convinced thousands of theatergoers that the actress must be Jewish ("I didn't even know what a Jew was until I was grown up," says Anne Bancroft). As Annie...
Silent Humor. Anne had known that she would be tapped for the part of Annie Sullivan ever since Gibson started working on the new play while Seesaw was still on the road. In the meantime, Anne became engaged, this time to Mario Ferrari-Ferreira, distantly related to the Italian auto family. But by the time Seesaw began its tryout in Washington, Annie was again fed up with the idea of marriage. "The play had become vitally important to me," she says matter-of-factly. "There was no time or energy for anything else." There was also another complication: her Catholicism...
...friend's wedding cake under her pillow, he answered ironically: "At last you're taking active steps." Says she: "I don't know why, but I can't make a mature relationship based on trust, respect and recognition." She adds: "Most of Annie Sullivan is myself. It's my own blindness I draw on, my unawareness of myself...
...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...