Synopsis
Wit - ACTING EDITION
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 3 Female
Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Her approach to the study of Donne is aggressively probing, intensely rational
But during the course of her illness -- and 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
She does so with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
CAST
M3,F3 + 2 Men or Women (flexible casting): 6 total
REVIEWS
"[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play ... you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted" ~ NY Times