Wit: a play-reading in conversation with terminal illness, palliative care, and poetry

Name: Wit: a play-reading in conversation with terminal illness, palliative care, and poetry
Start: 2022-03-31T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2022-03-31T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Online Event

by Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative

Cultural Literature Reading And Writing UCI Illuminations

Thu, Mar 31, 2022

6:30 PM – 8 PM PDT (GMT-7)

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Join us for a professional reading of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Wit by Margaret Edson, which depicts a literature professor coming to terms with dying of stage IV ovarian cancer. The reading will be followed by a panel discussion with UCI specialists in literature and medicine.

Cast: Chantrell Lewis, Olivia Wilde, Nick Exum, Rachel Sharp, Heather Echeverria
Panelists: Julia Lupton, PhD; Paul Coluzzi, MD; Mudit Dabral, MD

Event sponsors - UCI Illuminations and Center for Medical Humanities

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