The Year of Magical Thinking
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 29, 2007
Closed Aug 25, 2007
Opened Mar 29, 2007
Closed Aug 25, 2007
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Running Time:
1hr. 35min.
1hr. 35min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Vanessa Redgrave stars in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, a one-woman play based on her autobiographical book of the same name. David Hare directs.
In the play, Redgrave relives the unforgettable night in Joan Didion's life when, even as her only child lay in a coma, her husband of 40 years, writer John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly of a massive coronary as they sat down to dinner in their New York apartment. Capturing the compassion, humor, and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable, The Year of Magical Thinking is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage told with raw candor and a storyteller's gift for the absurd.
This is a limited engagement for 24 weeks only.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Booth Theatre
222 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
This charming little theater, built in the memory of Edwin Booth, opened in 1913 and contained a collection of his memorabilia. The theater's intimacy allows good sightlines from all over the house. The best seats are located on the center aisle wh [...] Read More
222 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
This charming little theater, built in the memory of Edwin Booth, opened in 1913 and contained a collection of his memorabilia. The theater's intimacy allows good sightlines from all over the house. The best seats are located on the center aisle wh [...] Read More
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In the Brigitte Lacombe photograph of author Joan Didion and actress Vanessa Redgrave that graces the program for
The Year of Magical Thinking, similarities between the women are evident -- most notably, rectangular faces marked by high cheekbones. But their physical differences are also apparent. Didion is so slight that she looks as if a light wind could blow her away, while the much taller Redgrave gives the impression that even in a heavy gale the most she would do is bend.
Yet by the time this 90-minute adaptation of Didion's recent best-seller is over, Redgrave has beautifully and achingly delivered this doleful and often amusing prose-poem about the nature of grief.
Indeed, when[...]