Wit

…of 1665; and Margaret Edson’s Wit (1995), about the slow, poignant cancer death of a literary scholar whose life has been shaped by the eloquence and wit of Metaphysical poetry.

…adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, it starred Thompson (who coscripted with Nichols) as a cancer-stricken English professor who reflects on key moments of her life as she undergoes chemotherapy in a hopeless battle to beat the disease. Nichols won an Emmy Award for his direction, as…