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MARGARET EDSON (1961 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Fifi Oscard Agency |
Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer for playwriting in 1999
Plays by Margaret Edson
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571198771 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10704 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 4+ men or women (flexible casting): 10 total | |||||
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| 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 | |||||
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