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WitThe play’s author will give a talk and conduct a question-and-answer session on the play at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, 2015, at Muse Arts Warehouse. This presentation is free and open to the public but tax-deductible contributions of $10 or more to The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble are encouraged and, because seating is limited, reservations are strongly recommended. Ms. Edson also will attend the Saturday, March 7, 8:00 p.m. performance of the play and conduct a question-and-answer session for the audience following the performance. For reservations, please call 912-232-0018 Tickets for the play are $20 general admission and $15 for seniors/students/active military. Coming next week is a one-act play “Wit” which will run at the Muse Arts Warehouse  Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., March 6 – 21, and Sundays at 3:00 p.m., March 7-22.   The subject matter is related to this discussion of end-of-life care and decisions.  In her extraordinary first play, Pulitzer-prize wining author Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. “[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play…you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.” —NY Times. “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.” —NY Magazine.

THE STORY: Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: 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—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.

The play’s author will give a talk and conduct a question-and-answer session on the play at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, 2015, at Muse Arts Warehouse. This presentation is free and open to the public but tax-deductible contributions of $10 or more to The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble are encouraged and, because seating is limited, reservations are strongly recommended. Ms. Edson also will attend the Saturday, March 7, 8:00 p.m. performance of the play and conduct a question-and-answer session for the audience following the performance. For reservations, please call 912-232-0018 Tickets for the play are $20 general admission and $15 for seniors/students/active military.