Wit is a powerfully imagined play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Margaret Edson. This sophisticated, multilayered drama explores one of existence's unifying experiences—mortality—and probes the vital importance of human relationships.

As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English, finds herself diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control, she approaches her illness with the same intensely rational and methodical approach that has guided her academic career. However, as her disease progresses, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her.

The play asks timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live and interact with others more important than our material or professional achievements? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it?

With clarity and elegance, Edson's writing makes this play accessible to any reader. It offers a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish—a lesson both uplifting and redemptive.