Details

Unexpected near death, Professor Vivian Bearing must urgently come to terms with life. To cope with intensive chemotherapy, Bearing will need everything she has learned as professor of John Donne's metaphysical sonnets - and more. Wit is a verbal feast: funny and frightening, cerebral and simple. Poetic, wrenching, exuberant, witty. A Pulitzer Prize winning play. Kathleen Chalfant recreates the role of Vivian Bearing Ph.D. which she played to great acclaim in both New York and Los Angeles. Leigh Silverman recreates the directing of Derek Anson Jones who died since the American premiere of this play. The play opened in New York in September 1998.

Cast/Performers

Kathleen Chalfant (Vivian Bearing), Jaye Griffiths (Susie Monahan), Ed Stoppard (Jason Posner), Malcolm Tierney (Harvey Kelekian / Mr Bearing), Irene Sutcliffe (E M Ashford), Keiron Crook (Lab Technician / Student), Oliver Holland (Lab Technician / Student), Michelle Joseph (Lab Technician / Student), Seana Montague (Lab Technician / Student)

Creatives/Company

Author: Margaret Edson
Director: Leigh Silverman
Design: Myung Hee Cho
Lighting: Michael Chybowski
Sound: David Van Tieghem
Costume: Ilona Somogyi