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The doctors serve as an unsympathetic backdrop to Vivian's illness. Consumed by the idea of research, they refuse to value her personal needs. So indifferent to her suffering, the doctors almost ignore Vivian's "do not resuscitate" wish. Surprisingly, the doctors' inhumanity parallels Vivian’s previous disinterest in her own patients: her students. With a mindset as convoluted as Donne’s poems, Vivian must abandon the rationality with which she dismisses others to accept kindness and the rather humbling simplicity of life. In addition, playwright Margaret Edson's crisp, fresh, and subtle writing augments Light's performance. Unlike the cliched tearje