Wit review " Julie Hesmondhalgh is superb in life-enhancing drama about death
Royal Exchange, ManchesterMargaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning play " about a woman with late-stage ovarian cancer " is given an authoritative revival by Raz Shaw"True wit," according to Alexander Pope, "is nature to advantage dress'd / What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd." The conceit applies to Margaret Edson's play about Vivian Bearing, an American professor specialising in the poetry of John Donne, who …