Here is a picture of Helen the last time Argosy staged this play in the 1970's

Overview Of The Play
At 6½ years old Helen Keller has been blind and deaf for 5 years. She is uncontrolled, bewildered and frustrated - completely unable to communicate. The play tells the moving story of the breakthrough accomplished by a young governess; Annie Sullivan from the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. At the end of a month of unremitting work Helen realises that one word, of all she has learned parrot fashion relates to a “real thing”. Although the play ends at this point, this was not the end of the story of Helen Keller as her ability to learn was far in advance of anything that anybody had seen before in someone without sight or hearing. At the age of 24 she graduated from Radcliffe College and thereby became the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She and Annie filled the following years with lecture tours, speaking of her experiences and beliefs to enthralled crowds. She also successfully campaigned to alleviate the living and working conditions of blind people. Helen died at home in 1968.