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Judith Light sacrifices vanity for the lead role
in the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning "Wt."

ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER
Special to the Jewish News

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tal gown throughout the performance.
"It shows that people should learn to
live in a way that makes them connect
to the soul. It shows what's important
is invisible to the eye, such as an act of
kindness or generosity."
In preparing for the role, going bald
was only one of the challenges Light
had to face. Another was summoning
the guts to bare all in a brief nude

hen Judith Light took
over the lead role in the
critically acclaimed off-
Broadway show Wt, she
knew it involved more than learning
lines. It also meant completely shaving
her thick, shoulder-length golden
locks. But for Light,
the Emmy-Award win-
ning TV actress best
known as Angela
Bower on Who The
Boss and Karen Wolek
on One Life To Live,
her now-bald head was
well worth the price of
the plum role.
"It's an absolutely
incredible part that I
didn't want to pass up,
even if it meant shav-
ing my head," says
Light, who cut her
hair in three stages to
soften the blow. "And
to be honest, I find it
very freeing because all
my life so much of me
has been about my
hair — the cut, the
color, is it a good hair
day, a bad hair day.
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But now I look in the
mirror and I am
0 0
reminded that my hair Judith Light: "It's an absolutely
incredible part that I didnt
is not who I am. I
want to pass up, even if it
don't even wear a wig
meant shaving my head" says
in public."
the actress about her role in
Wt, set in a com-
`Wt," a heartbreakingly funny
prehensive cancer cen- play about life, death and poetry.
ter, is based on
Margaret Edson's
Pulitzer Prize-winning
scene at the end of the play. "At first it
play about Vivian Bearing, an English
was very scary and uncomfortable, but
professor and John Donne scholar who
c.
that's not what the moment is about
is battling advanced metastatic ovarian
— and once you do it over and over
cancer. Light, who plays the eloquent
again, it's not so hard. It's a natural
Bearing, brilliantly conveys the indigni-
part of the play," says the actress.
ties and dehumanization of chemother-
On the other hand, being able to
apy with grippingly dry humor.
identify with her character was not a
Still, Light is quick to point out,
problem for Light. She was able to
while the play's theme deals with
draw on her experiences with family
death and dying, 1,171 is not depress-
and friends who were ill or had died
says
ing. "I think it's life-affirming,"
from cancer or AIDS.
Light, who is dressed in a drab hospi-

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