Hi. How are you feeling today? Great. Th...

Wit

Vivian Bearing, Ph.D

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(In false familiarity, waving and nodding to the audience.)

Hi. How are you feeling today? Great. That's just great.

(In her own professional tone.)

This is not my standard greeting, I assure you. I tend toward something a little more formal, a little less inquisitive, such as, say, "Hello." But it is the standard greeting here.

[... ... ...]

Of course I would not be wearing this costume at the time, so the question's ironic significance would not be fully apparent ...

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Margaret Edson, Wit, Faber & Faber, 1999, pp. 5-6.

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