The Year Of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion

Name: The Year Of Magical Thinking
Brand: Joan Didion
SKU: 9780307386410
Rating: 4 (5680 reviews)

Broadway

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

90 mins Present Day All Women Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle) Bare Stage/Simple Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you... ”

In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief... a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.

The first theatrical production of The Year of Magical Thinking opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare.

Press Reviews

"The passion lies underneath... this quirky, defiantly literary play... Her writing sounds like an out-of-body experience."
— Washington Post

"The play shares the book’s rigorous, transcendent intensity. It also shares its author’s unmistakable diction and rhythms... it’s dazzling: suspenseful, precise, suffused with terribly won wisdom."
— Time Out Chicago

"The power of this theatrical piece lies in the subdued message on overcoming self-pity and grief. We all will face these issues and Didion and Fisher offer clues on how to dignify our reaction to loss. This is a moving theatrical experience about an important subject that we often ignore."
— ChicagoCritic