A stunning first play about an academic attempting to come to terms with cancer. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and made into an Emmy-award winning feature film starring Emma Thompson.
Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour.