LF Theatre Presents: THE MIRACLE WORKER

Lake Fenton Theatre Presents

THE MIRACLE WORKER

by William Gibson. The story is based letters written by Anne Sullivan and on Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life.

Anne Sullivan was an inquisitive child born to Irish immigrant parents in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. With failing eyesight due to untreated trachoma, she lived in government poorhouses after her mother died and her father abandoned her and her brother who died two years later. An advocate at the poorhouse arranged for Sullivan to enroll and attend the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Several successful eye surgeries there helped Sullivan regain enough eyesight to read and attend school. At age 20, Sullivan, through the Perkins Institute, was recruited as Helen Keller’s tutor. Embarking on a journey to Keller’s home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, a tenacious Sullivan teaches a deaf, blind, and mute Keller to communicate using sign language. Along the way, Sullivan also changes the attitudes of Keller’s family, which is paralyzed by a fear of change.

The show will also be performed on Friday April 20 and Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm and Sunday April 22 at 2:30pm. 

 Tickets are $5 for students and senior citizens and $8 for adults and are available at the door.