Wit

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Wit, which is based off of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Margaret Edson. Really, it is just a filmed version of the play itself, I don’t think anything is actually changed. Emma Thompson stars as Vivian Bearing, the incomparable professor of 17th century metaphysical poetry, i.e. John Donne. Bearing has been diagnosed with advanced metastatic Ovarian cancer, and agreees to an extensively brutal attack of chemotherapy in an experimental effort to wipe out her cancer that has advanced to such a degree it is considered impossible to cure. You really ought to watch it.

The play is one about compassion and human suffering, it is about the temptation to exalt knowledge and the search for knowledge above humanity and kindness, and it is a play about distance–about the damning affects of too much distance.

The sister of some friends of ours stared in Wit, which was to be the capstone of her senior theater project, and when Britt and I were presented with the opportunity to attend we accepted emphatically. Last night we made the trek out to Cedarville University and saw Aimee Auclair put on a magnificent performance. The pictures accompanying this post are from last night’s experience.

No more tests! Not now, I refuse!

Look daddy! It’s soporific–the bunny is sleeping!