Film-DramaWed, Sep 14
Teleplay by Mike Nichols and Emma Thompson based on the 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning play.
documentaryMon, Sept 19
Harvard Medical School's Howard Weiner looks at some of life's bigger questions in this film.
documentaryThu, Sept 22
Exposing the social and political inequities in the lives of people living with disabilities in Nicaragua.
A FIREHOUSE HALLOWEEN TRADITION!Fri, October 28, 2011
Let's do the time warp again and together watch the movie that is a legendary cult classic!
Wed, September 14
Speakers: Dr. Ursula Matulonis and
Suzanne Bryan
Presented for the benefit of Ovation for the Cure
Wine and cheese reception at 6pm
Film presentation and discussion at 7pm
Based on the Margaret Edson play, Wit takes the viewer through a woman's reactions to the cancer that invades her body, her life and her very perceptions of who she is.
Vivian Bearing is a demanding and uncompromising professor of 17th century English poetry specializing in the holy sonnets of John Donne. After being diagnosed with advanced (stage 4) metastatic ovarian cancer, her training as an academic takes over and she treats the news with a certain matter-of-factness much like she would her own research. Indeed, her medical team - the renowned Dr. Harvey Kelekian and his fellow, Dr. Jason Posner, who happens to be an ex-student of hers - do treat her solely like a research experiment, with a "live at all cost" mentality. The doctors recommend an experimental treatment of aggressive chemotherapy, to which she agrees. In part out of her own choice but in part out of her own personal circumstances, she decides to go through the treatment alone. But as her treatment progresses, she wishes she had some more truly caring human interaction from people who see her as a person and not just a research experiment. As the disease charts its own course, Bearing reflects on her reactions to the cycle the cancer takes, the treatments, and significant events in her life.
About Suzanne Bryan: Suzanne worked at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (The Jimmy Fund) as a pediatric leukemia research nurse from 1978-1985; and then again from 2003-2009. This award winning researcher has authored or co-authored 14 publications, served on clinical trials, ethics advisory, and advanced care planning committees and was a fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. Now retired (2009) Suzanne enjoys time with her children and grandchildren. She recently had the pleasure of writing and directing Forbidden Newburyport for the Firehouse.
About Dr. Ursula Matulonis: Dr. Matulonis received her MD from Albany Medical College, New York, in 1987. She completed an internship and residency at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by a medical oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Since 1995, Dr. Matulonis has been an attending physician at Dana-Farber and Brigham and Womens Hospital. Her research focuses on gynecologic malignancies.
Know the symptoms of Ovarian Cancer:
This film is rated PG-13 for some thematic material.
This event is presented by the Greater Newburyport Ovarian Cancer Awareness for the benefit of Ovation for the Cure, a non-profit group.
This event is free and open to the public.
Read the press release here.
