"Wit"

"Wit": The Pulitzer-Winning Play About Dying

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, Margaret Edson's "Wit" is a remarkable play, both intellectually challenging and emotionally immediate. A renowned professor of English, who's spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. She applies the aggressively probing and intensely rational approach she takes with poetry to her illness and treatment, with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.