Wit won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [17] The play also received the "Best New Play" award for 1999 from the New York Drama Critics' Circle. [18] Because the play did not receive a production at a Broadway theatre, Wit was not eligible for the Tony Awards at that time. [19] Chalfant received an Obie award from the Village Voice for her ...

The play begins in the oncology unit at the university hospital, where she is receiving an eight-week, experimental chemotherapy treatment. Her overseeing doctor is Dr. Harvey Kelekian , who is also a university professor, and the two have a lot in common, including their relentless work ethics and their bemusement at undergraduate students ...

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“Wit” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson that traverses mortality, human connection, and the significance of kindness. Edson’s narrative centers around Dr. Vivian Bearing, a distinguished professor specializing in John Donne’s metaphysical poetry.

Nov 14, 2011 · "In this play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of Wit, Vivian Bearing, Ph. D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of the metaphysical poet John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

Wit—sometimes spelled as W;t—is a Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Margaret Edson first published in 1995.The play follows the story of Dr. Vivian Bearing, a 50-year-old professor of 17th-century poetry who has recently been diagnosed with stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer.

Wit takes place almost entirely in a single hospital and deals with one woman’s battle with cancer, so it stands mostly disconnected from historical events in the outside world. Despite this, the play and Vivian’s character are heavily influenced by the 17th-century poet John Donne (Vivian is a famous scholar of Donne and teaches classes on his work).

Jan 1, 2001 · “Wit: a Play” accomplishes some quite incongruous feats: it effectively piques our curiosity for the obscure poetry of a 16th Century John Donne; it disinterestedly instructs us on how modern medicine treats cancer; and yet, it shows the readers how the treatment takes shape at a very personal level. The play let us accompany an austere ...

Wit; A play written by Margaret Edson for none other than personal reasons, is a beautiful fusion of humor with knowledge of 17th-century literature, specifically the work of a well known poet, John Donne. In the first person of Dr. Vivian Bearing, told are the struggles of battling with death; not caused by a disease, but through the treatment ...