Wit
"The kind of theatrical experience of which legends are made" (The New York Times).
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Margaret Edson's Wit follows Vivian Bearing, a brilliant, demanding, and highly articulate poetry professor, as she undergoes experimental treatment for ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness, Vivian is moved from a position of authority to one of dependency, and she reassesses her life and work in an emotionally powerful, profound, sometimes humorous, and finally inspiring way that transforms her and each of us. A deeply compassionate and uplifting story of a life and death conflict between the head and the heart.
"brutally human and beautifully layered "you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted. A dazzling and humane play that you will remember till your dying day." (New York Magazine).
Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 7:30pm
Center for the Arts
110 Orchard Road, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA