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Margaret Edson

Autor von Wit: A Play

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Margaret Edson lives in Atlanta, Georgia. "Wit" is her first play. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Wit: A Play (1995) 1,167 Exemplare

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Geburtstag
1961-07-04
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
Washington, D.C., USA
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Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama (1999)

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Very moving story about the ups and downs of cancer through the eyes of the patient, in fast forward, as the play is only around 80 pages. Compelling.
 
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Chanicole | 23 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 6, 2023 |
A bit stuck in the late-90s Tear Down The Fourth Wall movement, but otherwise quite outstanding.

The death-and-afterlife-obsessed metaphysical poetry of [a:John Donne|77318|John Donne|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1220618065p2/77318.jpg] serves as a counterpoint to the reality of a slow, painful death in a cancer ward.
Now is not the time for verbal swordplay, for unlikely flights of imagination and wildly shifting perspectives, for metaphysican conceit, for wit.
...
Now is a time for simplicity.
… (mehr)
 
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mkfs | 23 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 13, 2022 |
Vivian Bearing, an English literature professor specialising in John Donne, undergoes horrific chemo before dying of her stage 4 ovarian cancer in this harrowing play.
 
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atreic | 23 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 13, 2021 |
I was actually fortunate enough to read it, and then see it performed during the same semester back in graduate school. In my journal back then, I did write that I thought the play as I read it was better than the performance itself (however, I should note we had gone to see a "preview" performance). But it was still a good experience. There are a lot of ironies in the play, and it is a very moving piece. Again, my journal notes are mostly academic, so I will leave them out.
 
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bloodravenlib | 23 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 17, 2020 |

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