Happy holidays! Enjoy Emma Thompson in "Wit" while you're on break. "Wit" won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for drama. It's funny and awkward and moving. Also: poetry! As someone who has done countless consent and DNR scenarios, this is a tough (but interesting! and powerful!) screenplay to watch; I can't imagine what it must be like if you have had cancer or lost someone to cancer.
Bonus gift: "UVM Medical Center hosts production of "Wit". SPs performing in a lecture hall! I wish I worked at an institution where this was possible.
"Wit," which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for drama, comes to Burlington thanks to another woman named Vivian — Vivian Jordan, a Shelburne resident who plays the lead role and whose profession merges the performing arts with the medical arts. Jordan works at the hospital as a “standardized patient,” which means she acts out roles for medical students learning how to diagnose illnesses. It brings awareness of end-of-life issues and spark discussion on the complex nature of dying in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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