Wit July 13, 2005

A play by the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society.

Dr Vivian Bearing, a feared & revered lecturer and professor of 17th century poetry, distinguished herself as a scholar of the fiendishly difficult sonnets of John Donne. However throughout this prize winning play she distinguishes herself in illness - Stage IV Metastatic Ovarian Cancer, to be exact. In a funny and moving show, Vivian herself becomes the object of study as doctors analyse and discuss her body like a text. By approaching her illness and treatment with her trademark unflinching discipline, she becomes the prize patient of a teaching hospital - challenging, intimidating and fascinating her clinicians with her remarkable intellectual and physical tenacity. But as the inevitable nears, her resilience fades and she comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humour that are enlightening - both for her and the audience.

Winner of the following awards: Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play; Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play; Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play; Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play; Oppenheimer Award for Best New American playwright

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