Goodly Creatures

by William Gibson

72 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

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William Gibson was a Tony Award-winning American playwright and novelist. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938.

Gibson's most famous play is The Miracle Worker (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play after he adapted it from his original 1957 telefilm script. He adapted the work again for the 1962 film version, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay; the same actresses who previously had won Tony Awards for their performances in the stage version, Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, received Academy Awards for the film version as well.

Reviews

[Jessica López-Barkl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was surprised by how much I liked this play. It was almost like reading a well-written revisionist history play in the milieu of THE CRUCIBLE but about Anne Hutchinson and how history and misogyny handed her a really s***ty deck of cards. Great characters, great dialogue, and also read at the same time that I read THE MIRACLE WORKER, not realizing that they were written by the same playwright. I didn't even know that William Gibson had any other plays of note. Ahhh! Ignorance! Good play...we were going to produce it, but the director shied away from the heavy male cast because we have mostly females in the community college program right now.