The Highlands Summer Festival is continuing with its second musical of its season, The Miracle Worker.
It’s the story of Helen Keller, the famous deaf and blind girl, who went on to write. Keller communicated mainly through sign language until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion, Anne Sullivan.
Sullivan taught Keller how to read and write, and Keller went on to graduate from Radcliffe College at Harvard University.
The musical touches on the relationship between teacher and student, and tells the story of Sullivan’s journey as she tries to teach Helen.
The musical is directed by Scot Denton, a director, producer, and actor, whose stage career began at the Charlottetown Festival.
The setting for the musical is The Keller homestead in Tuscumbia, Alabama, during the 1880s, when Helen was still a child.
Denton said, “I think there are some performances that are quite astonishing. In particular, the actors Molly Botten [playing Sullivan] and Evelyn Mardus [playing Keller].”
The Miracle Worker started July 15 and will be showing until the 23.
