![]() ![]() Certainly it has characters who bear the same names. ![]() "It's a different play entirely and it comes out of a quite different period of my life. "I resist calling 'Monday After the Miracle' a sequel," he says. The term has been brought up before, one gathers, and Gibson would just as soon lay it to rest once and for all. The great forbidding growth of eyebrows that extends across his otherwise pleasant face in a nearly unbroken line bristles perceptibly. Gibson, however, balks when the word "sequel" is raised. A natural double bill for an industrious repertory company somewhere. ![]() And "Monday After the Miracle," set 20 years later, is about to show the theater-going public what happened to those remarkable beings 20 years later. Playwright William Gibson has no difficulties picturing the day when "The Miracle Worker," his celebrated 1959 drama and "Monday After the Miracle," his newest effort for Broadway stage, will be playing back to back.Īfter all, the former, which has acquired a reputation as one of the contemporary theater's more life-enhancing experiences, depicts the arduous education of the savage young Helen Keller at the hands of Annie Sullivan, the gifted teacher who led her out of deafness and blindness into the light of civilization. ![]()
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