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The Year of Magical Thinking to play Booth Theater
By Amy Somensky Aug 21, 2006, 0:58 GMT
In The Year of Magical Thinking, Ms. Redgrave relives an almost unfathomably shocking period in Joan Didion\'s life. 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 brilliant storyteller\'s gift for the ...more
New York: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking will play the Booth Theater when it opens on Broadway next year. The production will begin performances on March 6, 2007 and officially open on March 29th. Vanessa Redgrave will star.
The creative team will feature direction by David Hare, set design by Bob Crowley, costume design by Ann Roth, and lighting design by Jean Kalman. Didion has adapted her own work.
The publishers describe the novel as follows: "Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself. With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. The Year of Magical Thinking will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife, or child."
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