Wit

a play

85 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1999 by Faber and Faber.

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This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befriends the nurse that is taking care of her, and as her cancer treatment progresses she finally realizes the futility of success if there is no one to love.

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I was actually fortunate enough to read it, and then see it performed during the same semester back in graduate school. In my journal back then, I did write that I thought the play as I read it was better than the performance itself (however, I should note we had gone to see a "preview" performance). But it was still a good experience. There are a lot of ironies in the play, and it is a very moving piece. Again, my journal notes are mostly academic, so I will leave them out.

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Subjects

  • Cancer in women -- Drama
  • Women college teachers -- Drama
  • English teachers -- Drama