Wit: A Play by Margaret Edson
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Book Reviews of Wit: A Play
Book Review: Eloquent and sharp--and yes, witty.
Summary: 5 Stars
It's hard to believe that this eloquent and sharp--and yes, witty--play is the first major work by Margaret Edson. I haven't had the opportunity to see it performed, but it must be a captivating couple of hours. The part of Professor Vivian Bearing (a fine name) is rendered perfectly: a woman whose transformation from pedant to human being is thoroughly convincing--and a more than a little inspirational. Here's hoping that Margaret Edson is teaching some versions of the lessons of this play to her kindergarten students in Atlanta. And here's hoping, too, that she's at work on a new play!Book Review: more than note worthy
Summary: 5 Stars
i devoured this play in less than an hour, it had my attetion the moment i began. as a person struggling with a terminal illness, i could relate to vivan's need to make sense of her disease and as time progressed to reconcile her healthly persona with the person she had become, as she battled her illness. i think the reader/audience is made privy to a lot of " behind the sceenes" experinces a patient endures at the had of the medical profession in search of the "cure". take the time to read this. i doubt you'll be disappointed, or the same.Book Review: Harrowing, transcendent drama
Summary: 5 Stars
I just returned from a weekend in NYC where I saw this play, which won the Pulitzer Prize last week. It is, at the risk of sound hyperbolic, one of the most gripping, exciting, passionate, moving, and intellectually daunting evenings of theatre I have ever seen. I bought the book and reread it on the way home. While nothing can duplicate Kathleen Chalfant's brilliant performance as Vivian Bearing, it is a play that also lives extraordinarily well on the page. Read it--your understanding of life, death, poetry, medicine, the body, and the soul will never be the same.Book Review: What a play should be
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the ideal play. It's intelligent, moving, witty (as you could probably guess), and really makes you examine what you value as important in your life. This is more than just a story of a woman dealing with cancer, it is about a woman dealing with her views on life as a whole. (The play also manages to incorporate some great John Donne poetry.) The scene in which Vivian's teacher reads _The Runaway Bunny_ is one of the most single touching scenes ever written for the stage. Buy it, read it, see it, this is a great play.Book Review: "It is not my intention to give away the plot",
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Vivian Bearing states at the beginning of the play but she does anyway. Though at the start this may not break your heart by the end of Vivian's journey it does. She is a woman who spent her life studying and teaching Donne's metaphysical poetry now she is the one being taught. She has to learn what the cancer inside of her is doing but most importantly she learns to be afriad and human. At the end of Ms. Edson's moving play the reader is left wishing there was a different end for Vivian. This play is definitely worth the read!