Wit (NHB Modern Plays)

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Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour.

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Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published:
ISBN 10: 1854594583
ISBN 13: 9781854594587
Prizes: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Drama Category 2000.

Media Reviews

Among the finest plays of the decade . . . An original and urgent work of art. --David Lyons, The Wall Street Journal
A dazzling and humane play you will remember till your dying day. --John Simon, New York magazine
[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play . . . You will feel both
enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted. --Peter Marks, The New York Times
A one-of-a-kind experience: wise, thoughtful, witty and wrenching. --Vincent
Canby, The New York Times Year in Review
A thrilling, exciting evening in the theater . . . [ Wit is] an extraordinary
and most moving play. --Clive Barnes, New York Post
Wit is exquisite . . . an exhilarating and harrowing 90-minute revelation. --
Linda Winer, Newsday
Edson writes superbly . . . [A] moving, enthralling and challenging experience
that reminds you what theater is for. --Fintan O'Toole, New York Daily News