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Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 3m, 4 any gender (adult)
Margaret Edson
A celebrated but exacting professor of metaphysical poetry, Vivian Bearing has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. In this Pulitzer-winning masterpiece, Margaret Edson creates a striking reflection on the frailty of existence.
Image: 2012 Manhattan Theatre Club Production (Joan Marcus)
Winner! 1999 Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner! 1999 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New PlayNominee: Two 2012 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play
Wit is a striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Vivian Bearing, a celebrated but exacting professor of metaphysical poetry, has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. It seems her life is nearing its final chapter. As she submits herself to an experimental treatment, Vivian approaches her illness with the same uncompromising rigor she brings to bear on the sonnets of John Donne. Through it all she comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and a moving wry humor.
Wit was first produced at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, CA on 24 January 1995. It then premiered off-Broadway at Union Square Theater (produced by MCC Theater, Long Wharf Theatre and Daryl Roth) on 7 January 1999. Directed by Derek Anson Jones, the production starred Kathleen Chalfant, with Walter Charles, Alex Phoenix, Paula Pizzi and Helen Stenborg.
Thirteen years later, the play debuted on Broadway in January 2012 with a celebrated revival at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, in a production starring Cynthia Nixon.
VIVIAN BEARING, PH.DHARVEY KELEKIAN, M.D./MR. BEARINGJASON POSNER, M.DSUSIE MONAHAN, R.N., B.S.N.E. M. ASHFORD, D.PHILLAB TECHNICIANS/CLINICAL FELLOWS/STUDENTS/CODE TEAM
This play may be performed with a cast of nine: The four Technicians, Fellows, Students and Code Team Members should double; Dr. Kelekian and Mr. Bearing should double.
This play may be performed with a cast of nine: the four Technicians, Fellows, Students and Code Team Members should double; Dr. Kelekian and Mr. Bearing should double.
A room of the University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center. The present.
“A genuinely life-enhancing play about death.” – The Guardian
“[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
Wit – 2012 Broadway Revival Highlights
Margaret Edson on Her Play “Wit”