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Wit
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Margaret Edson
24th - 31st January 2004
Director: Dave Midgley
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying
and teaching the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of the metaphysical poet John Donne, has
been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her
approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing and intensely rational. But during the
course of her illness - and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy
program at a major teaching hospital - Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work
with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and for the audience.
Vivian Bearing |
Christina Theobald |
Dr. Jason Posner |
Ian Mairs |
Dr Kelekian |
Brian Stoner |
Susie Monahan |
Jane Anderson |
Prof E. M Ashford |
Violet Pope |
Mr Bearing |
Brian Stoner |
Doctors / Students / Technicians |
Michelle Anderson, Sally Egginton, Darren Smith |
Stage Manager |
Clare Lewis |
ASMs |
Debbie Goodman
Michelle Anderson
Sally Egginton
Darren Smith |
Continuity |
Margaret Seddon |
Lighting |
Chris Hills
Bruce Williams |
Sound |
Jan Atkinson |
Properties |
Debbie Goodman |
Set Design |
Mike Rogerson |
Set Construction |
Dave Midgley
Ronnie Dykstra
Brian Stoner |
Special Makeup Effects |
Jodie Murphy
Natasha Litwinenk
Joanna Robson |
Hospital Equipment by Macclesfield District General Hospital
Mediprop Ltd, Ashton-Under-Lyne |
The Director would like to thank the following for their invaluable help with this production
James Middleton and Mike Smith - Macclesfield Hospital
Elaine Jones and team - Revealtions School of Makeup, Stockport
Nick Capey - Manchester Royal Infirmary
Oncology Nurse - Emma Nicholas, Guys Hospital, London
Dr Stephanie Killick - St Annes Hospice, Heald Green |
This play is kindly sponsored by
SC and P Jones, Builders and Plumbers Merchants |
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