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The miracle worker monologue12/2/2023 Theater critic Walter Kerr said Gibson “dramatized the living mind in its incredible energy, in its determination to express itself in violence when it cannot arrange itself into thought. One of the finest examples was the water-pump scene from “The Miracle Worker,” in which a determined Sullivan achieves a language breakthrough with her deaf and blind pupil who had resisted communicating beyond animal grunts and violent grasping. Gibson occasionally was criticized for sentimentality and structural clunkiness, but his best stage moments achieved a compelling emotional clarity. starred in the Broadway production, which earned respectable reviews and ran for 18 months under Penn’s direction. The second was a musical version of his friend Clifford Odets’ 1930s boxing drama and which he took over writing after Odets’ death.
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