A woman standing bravely on the precipitous brink of life's ultimate and greatest mystery, Vivian is brought to indelible life by Kathleen Chalfant - the role's originator. An actress of acute perception, inate understatement, and merciless honesty, she gives one of the finest performances you will ever see on a stage. Ultimately, as Vivian moves beyond and transcends the idignities and horrors of the ovarian cancer which is ravaging her body, so does the play transcend the expected clinical trappings of a story dealing with death and dying. Vivian is not merely a woman, she is universally human. But, in the end, superlatives are superflous.
Wit is an experience to be savored and shared.
Paul Day Clemens is a writer and actor.