Perhaps the intervening years have shown Gibson's script to be a bit stiff, its characters written with a heavy hand. Gibson's take on the Keller-Sullivan relationship has seen iterations on radio, television, film (three times), and stage, the latest major revival a brief Broadway run in 2010. Media Theatre's production of The Miracle Worker is only the latest to introduce William Gibson's adaptation of Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, to another generation, but it's a welcome introduction. There are few true American heroes whose reputations haven't tarnished with time Helen Keller and her indefatigable teacher Annie Sullivan are two of them.
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