Wit gives a person a better chance than a live performance does to really absorb the material.
Where the famously complex 17th-century poet John Donne is involved, it doesn't hurt to have time to mull things over. This might be the perspective of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., the central character of Wit and a professor who loves the life of the mind more than human interaction. The excellent production now being given by the Actors' Summit might change her outlook. It's well worth a trip to the company's temporary home in Hudson. A former teacher of Vivian's, played by Susan Speers, lets us see Vivian from another perspective.