W;T - A play by Margaret Edson

Vivian Bearing is an acclaimed professor on the notoriously difficult metaphysical poetry of John Donne, a woman at the top of her field, and who has just discovered she has Stage 4 metastatic ovarian cancer. Vivian’s acerbic wit leads the audience through the journey towards her death, a journey where she questions all that she previously thought she understood and valued. Ironically, Vivian discovers for all her intellectual understanding of Donne, she has no answers for his faith in God. W;T is powerful play posing confronting questions about our humanity and mortality, but it is also warm, affirming and witty.