Vivian Bearing, a respected professor of English literature specializing in the dense 17th-century metaphysical poetry of John Donne. That’s all Cronican and a fine supporting cast need for an impassioned portrayal of the last months of Dr. Accordingly (and in line with off-off-Broadway budgets) the set is pretty much just a movable hospital bed. The Seeing Place Theater’s off-off-Broadway production exemplifies the expansive possibilities of small-scale theater, in two ways.įirst, Wit doesn’t call for fancy sets or whiz-bang technology. As such it doesn’t need the showy high-tech trappings of so many of today’s Broadway spectaculars. It’s about what makes us human – specifically, as self-aware integrations of the physical and the intellectual. The play isn’t fundamentally about sickness or death, though. When the opening planned for March 2020 was put on hold along with everything else, Erin Cronican didn’t know whether she’d still be alive on New Year’s Day 2022. The play feels even more immediate as it stars an actor who is currently under treatment for advanced-stage cancer. A new production of Wit, Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a dying cancer patient, is particularly poignant as the COVID-19 pandemic metastasizes into its third year having killed more than five million people.
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