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12/4/06

PULITZER WINNER 'WIT' TO BE PERFORMED AT SLU

CANTON - Performances of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit will be at St. Lawrence University Wednesday through Saturday, December 6 through 9, at 8 p.m. each evening in the Black Box Theater, Griffiths Arts Center.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets may be obtained at the Gulick Theater box office from 1 to 5 p.m. each day during the week of the production, or call 315-229-5748.

At the start of Wit, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of the metaphysical poet John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne is aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness - and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital - Bearing comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.,br>

This production, directed by Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Kirk Fuoss, is intended for mature audiences. Performances run approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission. For more information, call 315-229-5192.

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