Edson, Margaret | Kerry Reid (review date 11 May 2000)
Kerry Reid (review date 11 May 2000)
SOURCE: Reid, Kerry. Review of Wit, by Margaret Edson. Back Stage West 7, no. 19 (11 May 2000): 17.
[In the following review, Reid praises the 2000 San Francisco production of Wit as “a soaring triumph and a wonderful melding of heart, soul, spirit, and mind.”]
“Only a comma separates death from life everlasting,” notes Dr. Vivian Bearing, the dying John Donne scholar in Margaret Edson's Wit. And Beating's valiant struggle to cross over from one side of that comma—present in Donne's famous “Death, be not proud” sonnet—to the other with grace, intelligence, courage, and, yes, wit makes for an utterly absorbing, moving, smart, and heartfelt evening of theatre.
Edson's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama (her first and, she says, her last) is now in its Bay Area premiere, with Judith Light brilliantly recreating her New York role as Bearing. Directed by Leah C....
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