Tucson: Etcetera presents WIT by Marget Edson at Live Theatre Workshop

 

From: Christopher Johnson [mailto:rumspringaandcoke@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:52 PM
Subject: Etcetera presents WIT by Marget Edson at Live Theatre Workshop

 

Contact: Christopher Johnson

Artistic Director of Etcetera,

the late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop

(520) 425-4163 | RumspringaAndCoke@gmail.com

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Etcetera, the late-night arm of Live Theatre Workshop, proudly presents

Wit

by Margaret Edson

Directed by Christopher Johnson

Assistant Direction by Dawn C. Sellers

Featuring Ryan Butler, Paul Cerepanya, Glen Coffman, Casi Omick,

Toni Press-Coffman, Carley Preston and Robbie Sanchez

February 23-March 10, 2012

Opening Night Performance: Thursday, February 23 at 7:30 PM

All other performances play Friday and Saturday Nights at 10:30 PM

All tickets are $10 at the Box Office

To make your reservation call (520) 327-4242

Approx. running time: 95 minutes with no intermission

For more information go to www.EtceteraLateNight.com

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP - 5317 E. Speedway | Tucson, AZ 85712

Located on the North side of Speedway between Rosemont and Craycroft

Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

 

THIS PRODUCTION CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND NUDITY.

NO ONE UNDER 16 ADMITTED.

 

                Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, 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 the audience.

 

“...a brutally human and beautifully layered new play…you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.”

-The New York Times

 

“A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.”

-New York Magazine

 

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Margaret Edson is an American playwright. She graduated with a B.A. in Renaissance History from Smith College, and received a master's in English literature from Georgetown University. Her jobs have included being a bicycle shop sales clerk and a volunteer ESL teacher. Edson's first play was Wit, first produced in 1995 at South Coast Repertory in California, about a John Donne scholar who is hospitalized for and dying of ovarian cancer. Edson did use her work experience in a hospital as part of the background in writing the play. At the time of its first New York production in late 1998, Edson was a kindergarten teacher at Centennial Place Elementary School (Atlanta, Georgia). The play won her the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The award brought her a large amount of publicity, including an interview on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Edson has written a second play, SATISFIED, whose subject is "country-gospel radio in Kentucky" --still unproduced. She currently teaches 6th grade social studies at Inman Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Photos courtesy of Christopher Johnson:

WITPress1.jpg -- Toni Press-Coffman in a scene from WIT

WITPress2.jpg -- Glen Coffman and Toni Press-Coffman in a scene from WIT

WITPress3.jpg -- Toni Press-Coffman and Casi Omick in a scene from WIT

WITPress4.jpg -- Toni Press-Coffman in a scene from WIT

 

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