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

– The New York Times

This Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama (1999) follows 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. As she grapples with her recent diagnosis of ovarian cancer, she shares her transformative journey into self-understanding, teaching the power of humor & humanity in a life lived with hope.

^{Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.}