Clock & Spiel Productions presents the Pulitzer Prize winner play Wit by Margaret Edson and directed by Helen Tonkin at Glen Street Theatre next month (29 February – 2 March 2024).
“Nothing but a breath – a comma – separates life from life everlasting. It is very simple really.”
Meet Vivian Bearing: she’s 50, in the prime of her life, highly respected and at the height of a stellar career. She’s a fiercely rational academic with a passion for poetry. And she’s found out she has just weeks to live.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Wit is not primarily a play about cancer, nor about the wit of John Donne – it is a play about the balance between head and heart, a play about life, death and the significance of a semicolon.
After critical and popular hits Freud’s Last Session, Metamorphosis, and The Screwtape Letters, Clock and Spiel have been praised for their smart and deeply touching productions – WIT is no exception.
Director Helen Tonkin says, “This play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for good reason. It is powerful, timeless, universal. It makes you re-assess what is important in life.”
Wherever we might be on our own road, Vivian asks us: ‘what truly matters when the end of that road comes into view?’
Wit isn’t a play about death, it’s a play about life. All of life, and everything that makes us who we are. As Vivian comes to terms with who she is; mind, body and soul, we’re left to ponder – can we conquer death, or at least our fear of it, by the way we live our lives?
“Cheryl Ward gives an outstanding performance… A spare and moving production balances the cerebral and emotional facets of Margaret Edson’s life-and-death drama just about perfectly.” – Audrey Journal
CAST:
- Cheryl Ward as Vivian Bearing
- Hannah Raven as Dr Jessica (Jason) Posner
- Yannick Lawry as Harvey Kelekian/Mr Bearing
- Hailey McQueen as Susie Monahan
- Helen Tonkin as E.M. Ashford
- Matt Abotomy as Lab Technician/Clinical Fellow/Student
- Joseph Tanti as Lab Technician/Clinical Fellow/Student
Creative Crew: Victor Kalka, Adam Jones, Natalie Low
Tickets are on sale now – https://glenstreet.com.au/whats-on/wit
Media release provided by Northern Beaches Council, 17th January 2024
