Profile Wit Margaret Edson's drama about a literature professor who develops ovarian cancer is a brilliant work of integrity, language and humanity.
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In this story of one woman's insightful retrospection during eight months of grueling chemotherapy, Dr. Vivian Bearing a respected literature professor who has devoted her life to the study and teaching of 17th-century poet John Donne is diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer. She must face her own mortality, the emotional cruelty of inhuman doctors and the absence of human contact in her life. With sarcastic humor and disarming wit, Bearing defies her new status as a mere science experiment, finding freedom at last in the release of life's heavy anchors. This event has upcoming appearances at 1 locations. Ovarian Cancer Web site Find out if you're at risk at the Ovarian Cancer Web site.