KELLER : Put up stronger fencing, ha?ĭOCTOR: Just let her get well, she knows how to do it better than we do. KATE: And isn’t there anything we should do? KATE: Doctor, don’t be merely considerate, will my girl be all right?ĭOCTOR: Oh, by morning she’ll be knocking down Captain Keller’s fences again. KELLER : I’ve brought up two of them, but this is my wife’s first, she isn’t battle-scarred yet. She’ll outlive us all.ĭOCTOR : Yes, especially if some of you Kellers don’t get a night’s sleep. KELLER: Nonsense, the child’s a Keller, she had the constitution of a goat.
I can tell you now, I thought she wouldn’t. (The DOCTOR leaves them together over the crib, packs his bag.)ĭOCTOR: You’re a pair of lucky parents. One is a young gentlewoman with a sweet girlish face, KATE KELLER the second is an elderly DOCTOR, stethoscope at neck, thermometer in fingers the third is a hearty gentleman in his forties with chin whiskers, CAPTAIN ARTHUR KELLER. They have been through a long vigil, and it shows in their tired bearing and disarranged clothing. Inside, three adults in the bedroom are grouped around a crib, in lamplight. PLACE: In and around the Keller homestead in Tuscumbia, Alabama also, briefly, the Perkins Institution for the Blind, in Boston. Apart from certain practical items-such as the pump, a window to climb out of, doors to be locked-locales should be only skeletal suggestions, and the movement from one to another should be accomplishable by little more than lights. The stage therefore should be free, airy, unencumbered by walls. To this end, the less set there is, the better in a literal set, the fluidity will seem merely episodic. THE CONVENTION OF THE STAGING is one of cutting through time and place, and its essential qualities are fluidity and spatial counterpoint. THE OTHER AREA, in front of the diagonal, is neutral ground it accommodates various places as designated at various times-the yard before the Keller home, the Perkins Institution for the Blind, the garden house, and so forth. On stage level near center, outside a porch, there is a water pump. THE AREA behind this diagonal is on platforms and represents the Keller house inside we see, down right, a family room, and up center, elevated, a bedroom. THE PLAYING SPACE is divided into two areas by a more or less diagonal line, which runs from downstage right to upstage left. ‘But if I write what my soul thinks,’ she said, ‘then it will be visible, and the words will be its body.’ ” “At another time she asked, ‘What is a soul?’ ‘No one knows,’ I replied ‘but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes.’. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Scribner and Simon & Schuster.įor the wife and the kids and the next breath with love Thank you for downloading this Scribner eBook. “Really and truly powerful, hair-raising, spine-tingling, touching and just plain wonderful!” A play with the power to wrench the heart.” “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
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