Sept 4-7, 12, 13, 2003
to be produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, Inc.


Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize

*In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned scholar and professor of English who spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne has been aggressively probing and intensely rational. But during her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital - Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.

"[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play ... you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted"

               -The New York Times

"A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day."
               -New York Magazine

*Reprinted from the back cover of the play handeled by Dramatists Play Services, Inc., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016


Your Wit Production Staff,

Jim Dougherty - Director
David Blose - Assistant Director/Stage Manager

Ovarian Cancer Information