The Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English, has been
diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness
Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor
that are transforming both for her and the audience. Written by Washington,
D.C. native, Margaret Edson, fifteen years later this play remains a
powerful, insightful study of closing a life, based on her own work
experience in a hospital.
Produced by Janet Bordeaux (Side Show, The Musical of
Musicals: The Musical!)
Directed by Gloria DuGan (Passion, Doubt: A Parable, Blood
Brothers, Art, The Runner Stumbles)
Parental Advisory: Wit contains
mature themes and brief nudity.
Running Time: TBD (performed without intermission)
Production Dates: June 4 - June 26, 2010
Auditions: March 29 &
30,
2010
Produced by special arrangement with
Dramatists Play Service,
Inc..
ESP Productions are partially supported by grants from the
The Town of Herndon, The Nelson and Katherine Post Foundation, the Virginia
Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
