Wit at Theatre B

Theatre B opens its 2014-2015 season in September with the Pulitzer Prize winning “Wit” by Margaret Edson, in collaboration with the Embrace Cancer Survivorship Program. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program inexorably progress, Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity, humor, and wit that are transformative.

There will be public performances of “Wit” at Theatre B, as well as special performances and workshops held through the Embrace Cancer Survivorship Program. ‘We are excited to be partnering with Embrace to bring this incredible play directly to doctors and medical students, and to connect our artists to cancer survivors to imbue this play with truth and life,’ says Theatre B Program Coordinator Brad Delzer.

Authors

• Margaret Edson

Tony Awards and Nominations for Wit