Margaret Edson's "Wit" Provides Insight Into Life's Endgame
Can a play about cancer be uplifting? That's the question posed by Margaret Edson in her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, currently showing at the Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard. The play concerns the plight of Dr. Vivian Bearing, a 50-year-old English teacher with a particular fondness for sonnets written by English scholar and metaphysical poet John Donne (1572 " 1631). …