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Wit

Margaret Edson

199956 pagesabout 1 hour
1999
first published
  • 1999Faber and Faber, Inc.ISBN 9780739401910
  • 1999Dramatists Play Service · 68 pages · ENGISBN 9780822217046
  • 2000Nick Hern Books · 56 pages · ENGISBN 9781854594587
  • 2002Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613367523
  • 1999Faber & Faber · 96 pages · ENGISBN 9780571198771

This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befriends the nurse that is taking care of her, and as her cancer treatment progresses she finally realizes the futility of success if there is no one to love.

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