THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
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Literary Drama
A TOP 100 BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY – The Guardian
Acclaimed author Joan Didion lived a charmed and affluent life, with a loving husband and a daughter who recently got married – until her husband died at the dinner table a month before their 40th anniversary, while their daughter lay in an induced coma in the hospital. Based on the autobiographical book by the same name, this play is a painfully honest and painstakingly remembered examination of Didion’s first year of grief, told with vulnerability and passion, offering a path through the unimaginable.
Directed by Rodrigo Beilfuss
“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
IN HER OWN WORDS:
An interview with Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave as the Dublin Film Festival prepared to remount the original Broadway production.
"What we wanted to do with this is somehow make a strong, strong moment in someone's evening, and I'll be really happy if that happens once, for one person."
