Clock & Spiel Productions present the Pulitzer Prize winner play Wit by Margaret Edson and directed by Helen Tonkin at Glen Street Theatre next month (29 Feb – 2 Mar 2024).

“Nothing but a breath - a comma - separates life from life everlasting. It is very simple really.” 

Meet Vivian Bearing: she's 50, in the prime of her life, highly respected and at the height of a stellar career. She's a fiercely rational academic with a passion for poetry. And she's found out she has just weeks to live. 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Wit is not primarily a play about cancer, nor about the wit of John Donne – it is a play about the balance between head and heart, a play about life, death and the significance of a semicolon. 

After critical and popular hits Freud’s Last Session, Metamorphosis, and The Screwtape Letters, Clock and Spiel have been praised for their smart and deeply touching productions - WIT is no exception. 

Director Helen Tonkin says, “This play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for good reason. It is powerful, timeless, universal. It makes you re-assess what is important in life.” 

Wherever we might be on our own road, Vivian asks us: 'what truly matters when the end of that road comes into view?' 

Wit isn't a play about death, it's a play about life. All of life, and everything that makes us who we are. As Vivian comes to terms with who she is; mind, body and soul, we're left to ponder - can we conquer death, or at least our fear of it, by the way we live our lives?

“Cheryl Ward gives an outstanding performance… A spare and moving production balances the cerebral and emotional facets of Margaret Edson’s life-and-death drama just about perfectly.” – Audrey Journal

 

CAST:

Cheryl Ward as Vivian Bearing
Hannah Raven as Dr Jessica (Jason) Posner
Yannick Lawry as Harvey Kelekian/Mr Bearing
Hailey McQueen as Susie Monahan
Helen Tonkin as E.M. Ashford
Matt Abotomy as Lab Technician/Clinical Fellow/Student
Joseph Tanti as Lab Technician/Clinical Fellow/Student
Creative Crew: Victor Kalka, Adam Jones, Natalie Low

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

  • Wit plays at Glen Street Theatre 29 Feb – 2 Mar
  • Wit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on publication in 1999
  • Wit is studied as a text on the Advanced English HSC Syllabus
  • Moving Australian production of a world-class play, on the Northern Beaches in Sydney
  • Principal actor Cheryl Ward, Director Helen Tonkin and Artistic Director of Clock & Spiel Productions, Hailey McQueen are available for interview. Other actors and production crew available for interview on request. 
  • Tickets are on sale now
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