Apoptosis Is My Favorite Word by Gretchen Case: A Commentary and Response

This brief commentary approaches Gretchen Case's Apoptosis Is My Favorite Word as a kind of "anti-W;t," (W;t being the critically acclaimed play by Margaret Edson). It discusses how Case's performance piece resists the coherence and causality of the conventional theatrical narrative, subverts the linguistic elements (words, syntax, metaphors) of the familiar cancer story, and challenges the appropriation and objectification of the traditional male gaze.