W;t
October 25-28, 2001
Mackenzie Theatre, Charlottetown
Written by: Margaret Edson
Director: Jeanne Henry, with Suzanne Jones
Stage Manager: Wallena Higgins
Producer: Gerry Gray
Properties and Costumes: Graham Lea, Marion MacKinnon, UPEI School of Nursing
Graphic Designer: Joy Tremblay
Cast: Barbara Rhodenhizer, Joan Laidlaw, Stuart Smith, Kim Gillis, Joel Meggs, John Conway, Jennifer Campbell, Aldera Chisholm, Jeff Coll, Ralph Hudson
This Pulitzer-prize-winning play, later a movie starring Emma Thompson, features an uncompromising, detached English professor who must learn compassion through the ordeal of her own, ultimately unsuccessful, cancer treatment. As she is also the narrator of the play, this character (Barbara Rhodenhizer) never leaves the stage and has 80% of the lines. The final performance was followed by a panel discussion organized by the Cancer Society.

