Nijinsky Speaks.(Harold Clurman Theater, New York, New York)

The New Leader | October 5, 1998| | Copyright

The Academy and the cancer wardshare many of the same terms: "exam," "study," "test results," "research," "analysis," "course." Yet as playwright Margaret Edson demonstrates in her new drama, Wit, context is everything. In one arena the words concern illumination and explication; in another, they are a matter of life and death.

Vivian Bearing, PhD (Kathleen Chalfant), is familiar with both the university and the hospital. A professor of English Lit. specializing in the poetry of John Donne, she comes to an unnamed clinic suffering from advanced ovarian cancer. ...

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