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The Year of Magical Thinking closes today
By Amy Somensky Aug 25, 2007, 0:39 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: The one-woman play, The Year of Magical Thinking, adapted by Joan Didion from her book of the same name plays its final performance today at the Booth Theater.
Vanessa Redgrave brings Joan Didion's experiences to the stage.
The creative team features 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.
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 absurd.
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