- Taschenbuch: 85 Seiten
- Verlag: Faber & Faber; Auflage: 1 (März 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0571198775
- ISBN-13: 978-0571198771
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,9 x 12,8 x 0,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (22 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 460.090 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Wit is that rare beast: art that engages both the heart and the mind. "It is not my intention to give away the plot," Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., announces near the beginning of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "but I think I die at the end. They've given me less than two hours." For two hours, this famed Donne scholar takes center stage, interrupting her doctors, nurses, and students to explicate her own story, its metaphors and conceits. Recently diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer, she is being treated with an experimental drug cocktail administered in "eight cycles. Eight neat little strophes." The chemo makes her feel worse than she ever thought possible; in fact, the treatment is making her sick, not the disease--an irony she says she'd appreciate in a Donne sonnet, if not so much in life.
Throughout, Vivian finds, the doctors study and discuss her body like a text: "Once I did the teaching, now I am taught. This is much easier. I just hold still and look cancerous. It requires less acting every time." As her time draws to a close, a sea change begins to work in the way Vivian thinks about life, death, and indeed, Donne. His complex, tightly knotted poems have always been a puzzle for her formidable intellect, a chance to display "verbal swordplay" and wit. Her sickness presents an entirely different challenge. A powerful, prickly personality, capable of dry asides even during a bout of gut-wrenching nausea ("You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon"), Vivian develops a new appreciation for the simple, the maudlin, the kind. Not to give away the plot, but the final moments in Margaret Edson's debut are as wrenching--as human--as anything in recent drama. --Mary Park
Pressestimmen
“Among the finest plays of the decade . . . An original and urgent work of art.”—David Lyons, The Wall Street Journal
“A dazzling and humane play you will remember till your dying day.”—John Simon, New York magazine
“[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play . . . You will feel both
enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.”—Peter Marks, The New York Times
“A one-of-a-kind experience: wise, thoughtful, witty and wrenching.”—Vincent
Canby, The New York Times Year in Review
“A thrilling, exciting evening in the theater . . . [Wit is] an extraordinary
and most moving play.”—Clive Barnes, New York Post
“Wit is exquisite . . . an exhilarating and harrowing 90-minute revelation.”—
Linda Winer, Newsday
“Edson writes superbly . . . [A] moving, enthralling and challenging experience
that reminds you what theater is for.”—Fintan O’Toole, New York Daily News
“A dazzling and humane play you will remember till your dying day.”—John Simon, New York magazine
“[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play . . . You will feel both
enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.”—Peter Marks, The New York Times
“A one-of-a-kind experience: wise, thoughtful, witty and wrenching.”—Vincent
Canby, The New York Times Year in Review
“A thrilling, exciting evening in the theater . . . [Wit is] an extraordinary
and most moving play.”—Clive Barnes, New York Post
“Wit is exquisite . . . an exhilarating and harrowing 90-minute revelation.”—
Linda Winer, Newsday
“Edson writes superbly . . . [A] moving, enthralling and challenging experience
that reminds you what theater is for.”—Fintan O’Toole, New York Daily News
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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.
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Als ich das erste mal das Stück im Theater gesehen habe,habe ich auch die Anspannung der Zuschauer gesehen. Einige sagten sogar, dass man mit so einem Thema nich auf die Bühne kommen darf. Daran wird deutlich,dass es ein Thema ist, was fast zu tode geschwiegen wird, viele es für Tabu halten und nicht darüber sprechen wollen. So hatte es auch eine andere Message: Wie unmenschlich und egoistisch viele Ärtzte gegenüber einem Totkaranken Menschen begegnen können, da die Schauspieler in dem Stück auch überragend gespielt haben, hatte es eine gute Mischung und ist mein Absoluter Favorit in Sachen Theaterstücken geworden und empfehle es jedem weiter der sich mit dem Tod befasst und nicht wie viele schweigt und abwartet, bis es einem selbst trifft.
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Originally saw the play performed at Kennedy Center. Unfortunately, I missed some essential aspects of the (primarily) monologue due to the overt reactions of members of the audience around me. Judith Light was embarking on John Donne's version of wit, and I was holding the hand of the sobbing man next to me (my husband was holding my other hand, and had a few teary moments as well). My husband recognized his own need for further understanding of "w;t" as well as my own wish for comprehension, so he purchased the screenplay and we both read it.
Cynics are welcome to react with the generic approach to research, and oncology's dispassionate involvement between physician and patient. For those of us who have braved the ordeal of loving a professor, a physician, a mother, a father, a child, a friend, a neighbor, a professional and/or a technician, I dare say that everyone of us has known at least one other who has undergone the transformation from one state of being to succumbing to the state of being that is succinctly titled as: cancer patient.
"W;t" does not mire anyone in the lonliness that is the 50 year old professor with no immediate family and whose main claim to fame is her incredible knowledge of the famed poet John Dunne. For those of us who have read and been moved by "Death Be Not Proud," Dunne has already touched our lives (for me, it was required reading in seventh grade). What I missed in the theater production, I received twice again in the reading of the screenplay.
I laud all who created what is "W;t" and only pity those who choose to neglect it.
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Dealing with Cancer
I intially looked at this play to see the references to John Donne's poetry, but was swept away by the tight drama of the story of an indomitable English professor courageously... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Mai 2000 von "pure-swallow"
MOVED BEYOND TEARS
The w;t of this poignant peice of insanely beautiful art lies not just within the dialogue, but within the author's uncanny ability to make her audience FEEL. Vivian is real. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Mai 2000 von Krystel R. Gutierrez
The most powerful play I've seen/read in years
I bought and read the play after seeing it performed twice by Judith Light, once off-Broadway and once regionally in Washington, D.C. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. März 2000 von Frank Cunat
I would give it 0 stars if I could
This play was so full of stereotypes, it is ironic that the title is "Wit." The cold, driven, successful English professor gets cancer, her doctors are absolutely... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. März 2000 von Ex Libris
poignant
This play lives up to its' Pulitzer Prize Award by its' ability to reach a myriad of emotions. This is accomplished through the strong descriptions through the eyes of a poetry... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. November 1999 von Michelle M. Dorsey
Just Read Wit
This is by far one of the most powerful plays to come out of the American theater in the past ten years. Even if you aren't a theater buff or like to read plays you must read Wit. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Great play
Dr. Vivian Bearing is renowned throughout the literary world for her expertise on John Donne's seventh century Holy Sonnets. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
A dazzling play that puts everything into perspective!
If there ever was a play that deserved to win the Pulitzer Prize, this is the one. In this play, we are introduced to Dr. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D, John Donne expert. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Oktober 1999 von Christian Engler
Brilliantly moving and touching. A must read.
Margaret Edson brings to this book, and to the stage, a moving and brilliant play. The irony and beauty of this work may be lost on those who read only the words and do not delve... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Brevity is the soul of W;t
As a physician and sometimes poet, I enjoyed W;t tremendously. Edson knows physicians better than many of them know themselves. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. September 1999 veröffentlicht
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