WIT Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne is aggressively probing and intensely rational. But during the course of her illness Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. |
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CAST LIST: VIVIAN BEARING, PH.D.--JANICE RUSSELL LAB TECHNICIANS, STUDENTS, RESIDENTS |
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