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Theatre Production: “WIT”

Saturday, April 28, 2018 8 p.m.
Repeats daily (to April 28, 2018)
$10 General Admission
$5   Non-ASU Students
FREE to ASU Students, Arts@ASU Subscribers and ASU Activity Card Holders
ASU Modular Theatre
by Margaret Edson
directed by Ashley Meyer
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play. In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate.
“[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play…you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.” —NY Times. “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.” —NY Magazine.
The production team will host a talk-back with a panel of medical, educational, and artistic professionals to discuss Margaret Edson’s “W;T” on Saturday, April 28, following the performance. The talk-back is free and all are invited.
Cast
Jennie Wagner - Vivian Bearing, Ph.D; Nicholas Dietrick - Harvey Kelekian, M.C./Mr. Bearing; Dakota Jones - Jason Posner, MD; Audrey McKillip - Susie Monahan, RN/BSN; Sabrina Idom - E.M. Ashford, D. Phil.
Ensemble
Marco Molina, Corbin Stevens, Sonja Gonzales, Sidney Timmer
Crew
Tessa Verner - Stage Manager; Kyle Newman - Assistant Stage Manager; Julia McDaniel - Lighting Design; Matthew Jackson - Costume Design; Arianna Gonzalez - Sound Design
W;T QR code

Location

Carr Education-Fine Arts Building