Redbridge Stage Company

Blind and mute, nobody knows what young Helen Keller's fate might have been had she not come under the tutelage of Annie Sullivan, an Irish girl who had been born blind. This true story is principally concerned with the emotional relationship between the lonely teacher and her blind charge. Little Helen, trapped in her secret world, is bitter, violent, spoiled and almost animal like. Only Annie realises that there is a mind waiting to be rescued from that dark, tortured silence but her success with Helen comes only after turbulent, violent, and emotionally charged scenes.