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83% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 91% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Professor Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson), an expert on the work of 17th-century British poet John Donne, has spent her adult life ...
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TOP CRITIC. A shrewd and triumphant retooling of Margaret...
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As a film, though, it held my interest fairly well. Rated...
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Although this review will focus on the 2001 HBO film adaptation, instructors have two mediums to choose from when considering how to incorporate Witinto the classroom: the 2001 adaptation of the play (available for free on Youtube) and Margaret Edson’s 1993 stage play of the same name (available at most libraries and for purchase through online boo...
“You have cancer.” These are the words that open the 2001 HBO adaptation of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play, Wit. The adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson, tells the story of Dr. Vivian Bearing’s final weeks of life as she undergoes eight months of rigorous, and often painful, experimental treatment for...
Witis not a story of survival. Instead, the film deconstructs the typical tale of staying strong through cancer treatment, overcoming the odds, and surviving. The film skillfully constructs a story of repair and restoration of the individual not through treatment of the body ravaged by cancer, but by admitting one’s weaknesses, exposing oneself, an...
Witis more than a case study of an individual struggling with experimental cancer treatment and, in the process, her humanity. The play also depicts Professor Bearing’s interactions (or lack thereof) with her primary care providers Dr. Harvey Kelekian, Dr. Jason Posner, and Nurse Susie Monahan. With her characteristic dry wit, she reflects on the d...
Interestingly, Edson shared that her first job was as a physical therapy aide. When reflecting on this early work, Edson observed, “The world of physical therapy, it seems to me, is incremental progress; is small steps, small improvements toward a distant goal.” Throughout the play Professor Bearing’s transformation into a human who has lived and i...
“Physical therapy is such a dialogue; it’s just the two of you and you’re talking about it and you’re doing it together.”
According to Edson, “Studying theater is the best way to see what it’s like to be somebody else; to pretend to be somebody else.” By incorporating playwriting and acting into the PT curriculum, faculty can help students explore their growth as clinicians, grapple with their mistakes, and even gain a better sense of empathy and understanding for their patients. Instructors can incorporate a multimedia approach to Witby asking students to read a scene from the stage play and then watch the same...
Margaret Edson was born in Washington, DC in 1961. Between earning degrees in history and literature, she worked as a unit clerk on the cancer and AIDS in-patient unit of a research hospital. Wit, written in 1991, is her only play. Edson has been a public schoolteacher since 1992. She currently teaches sixth-grade social studies in the Atlanta Publ...
Wit was written in 1991 and first premiered at South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California in 1995. It was produced in New York in 1998 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999. The HBO production, featuring Emma Thompson, won the Emmy Award for best film in 2001; it is now available on You Tube. Wit was revived on Broadway in 2012, with...
Strange as it may seem, it is the film that deals with cancer in an honest, forthright way that I admire most; a film that neither glosses over, nor extricates, nor trivializes what it is like to have such a disease affect one’s life.
Directed by Mike Nichols. A mesmerizing adaptation of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about dying and death that will soften the heart of anyone who sees it. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
On Rotten Tomatoes it has a score of 83% based on reviews from 12 critics. [3] Eddie Cockrell of Variety called the film "shrewd and triumphant" and "focused, emotionally draining and ultimately inspiring" and added, "The risks in filming such a theatrical experience are enormous, yet the original material has been carefully and smartly ...
Sep 6, 2001 · Wit (2001) Reviewed by Neil Smith. Updated 6 September 2001. Emma Thompson delivers a brave, heartfelt, and punishing performance in this poignant film, chosen as the closing night gala at...
