![]() ![]() The play moved to the Off-Broadway Union Square Theater in December 1998, after its successful initial run at the MCC. ![]() She also incorporated her own life experience into her work on the play, including the final illness and death of her brother Alan Palmer from cancer. ![]() Chalfant received strong praise for her performance. An excerpt from the play was published in the New York Times in September 1998. The play received its first New York City production Off-Broadway in September 1998, at the MCC Theater (MCC), with Chalfant reprising her role as Vivian Bearing and direction by Derek Anson Jones. Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut subsequently staged the play in November 1997, with Kathleen Chalfant in the lead role of Vivian Bearing. It was given a reading at NewSCRipts, and a full production was then scheduled for January 1995. He gave it to artistic director Martin Benson, who worked with Edson to ready the play for production. Edson had sent the play to many theatres, with SCR dramaturg Jerry Patch seeing its potential. Wit received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory (SCR), Costa Mesa, California, in 1995. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play. Wit (also styled as W t) is a one-act play written by American playwright Margaret Edson, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ![]()
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