Wit

by Margaret Edson

Directed by Seth Rodivich

Friday, May 1, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 2:00 pm

Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 at the door

Strong adult language, content, and themes. For mature audiences only.

Wit, directed by Seth Rodivich, is a striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of
existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. A celebrated but exacting
professor of metaphysical poetry, Vivian Bearing has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of
cancer. It seems her life is nearing its final chapter. As she submits herself to an experimental
treatment, Vivian approaches her illness with the same uncompromising rigor she brings to bear
on the sonnets of John Donne. Through it all she comes to reassess her life and her work with
profundity and a moving wry humor.

In 1999, Margaret Edson’s play Wit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the “Best New
Play” award from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. The 2012 Broadway production was
nominated for the Tony Award and Best Revival of a Play. Edson’s first and only play, Wit is
inspired by Edson’s time working as a unit clerk in the AIDS and cancer treatment wing of a
research hospital. Rooted in reality, her work is marked by a self-aware blend of comedy and
tragedy that meticulously carves out themes of pain and compassion from both an academic and
practical understanding of language