Q: Why is it important for this story to be told today?

A: “The literary analysis website enotes.com describes Donne's sonnets thus: "The poems are a record of a soul’s quest to demonstrate and to experience faith, and the language and imagery convey a struggle to resolve deep conflicts. The struggle is marked by anguish and, at times, despair." This play places that timeless theme in the context of high-tech modern medicine in a life-and-death situation.”

Q: How does your character fit into the end of Vivian's life journey?

A: “My character, her father, launches her in her life journey in a way that echoes throughout. Intellectually stimulating but emotionally distant in his relationship with her, she becomes the same, a professor whose students find her brilliant and challenging but difficult. Then the tables are turned once again when one of her students becomes a medical researcher and treats her essentially like a lab rat.”

Q: What is the overall heart of this story?

A: “It's the tension of the poetry of her soul's struggle in facing death as expressed through the sonnets with the coldness of the modern medical treatment and research environment.”

Q: What do you hope the audience takes away from this experience?

A: “Life is precious and brief; love your children, love your students, your teachers, your patients, your doctors. Never fail to connect connect connect on a human level wherever you can to find your place in the world, as whatever you put out there comes back in circular fashion.”